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אִם

im · if

Hebrew · Strong's H518 · Conjunction · Sounds like: eem · 1,070 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • if H0518A 714
  • if: except H0518B · a Part of 150
  • if: surely no H0518H · a Meaning of 109
  • if: surely yes H0518I · a Meaning of 80
  • if: until H0518J · a Meaning of 17

Strong's dictionary

a primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not; (and, can-, doubtless, if, that) (not), [phrase] but, either, [phrase] except, [phrase] more(-over if, than), neither, nevertheless, nor, oh that, or, [phrase] save (only, -ing), seeing, since, sith, [phrase] surely (no more, none, not), though, [phrase] of a truth, [phrase] unless, [phrase] verily, when, whereas, whether, while, [phrase] yet.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
אִם conj.
1. hypoth. part. if
2. Interrog. part.
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
כִּי אם־
1. each part. retaining its independent force, and relating to a different clause:
a. that if
b. for if
2. (About 140 t.) the two particles being closely conjoined, and relating to the same clause—
a. limiting the prec. clause, except
b. the if being neglected, and treated as pleonastic, so that the clause is no longer a limitation of the preceding clause but a contradiction of it: but rather, but
c. after an oath, surely

Every occurrence

  1. Genesis 4:7 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee shall be its desire; but do thou rule over it.

  2. Genesis 4:7 וְאִם֙ ve.'Im · Small word: and if

    If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee shall be its desire; but do thou rule over it.

  3. Genesis 13:9 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou take the right hand, then I will go to the left.

  4. Genesis 13:9 וְאִם־ ve.'im- · Small word: and if

    Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou take the right hand, then I will go to the left.

  5. Genesis 13:16 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may thy seed also be numbered.

  6. Genesis 14:23 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

  7. Genesis 14:23 וְאִם־ ve.'im- · Small word: and if

    that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

  8. Genesis 15:4 אִם֙ 'im · Small word: except

    And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

  9. Genesis 15:5 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

  10. Genesis 17:17 וְאִ֨ם־ ve.'Im- · Small word: and or

    Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

  11. Genesis 18:3 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    and said, My lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

  12. Genesis 18:21 וְאִם־ ve.'im- · Small word: and if

    I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

  13. Genesis 18:26 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.

  14. Genesis 18:28 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.

  15. Genesis 18:30 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

  16. Genesis 20:7 וְאִם־ ve.'im- · Small word: and if

    Now therefore restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

  17. Genesis 21:23 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

  18. Genesis 23:8 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

  19. Genesis 23:13 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me: I will give the price of the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.

  20. Genesis 24:8 וְאִם־ ve.'im- · Small word: and if

    And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son thither again.

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