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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. Isaiah 1:18 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: though

    Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

  2. Isaiah 1:18 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: though

    Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

  3. Isaiah 1:19 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

  4. Isaiah 1:20 וְאִם־ ve.'im- · Small word: and if

    but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.

  5. Isaiah 4:4 אִ֣ם׀ 'im · Small word: if

    when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.

  6. Isaiah 5:9 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    In mine ears saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

  7. Isaiah 6:11 אִם־ 'im- · Small word

    Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

  8. Isaiah 7:9 אִ֚ם 'im · Small word: if

    and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

  9. Isaiah 8:20 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

  10. Isaiah 10:9 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: or

    Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

  11. Isaiah 10:9 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: or

    Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

  12. Isaiah 10:15 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: or

    Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up him that is not wood.

  13. Isaiah 10:22 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: though

    For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return: a destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

  14. Isaiah 14:24 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    Jehovah of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

  15. Isaiah 21:12 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.

  16. Isaiah 22:14 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    And Jehovah of hosts revealed himself in mine ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

  17. Isaiah 24:13 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

  18. Isaiah 27:7 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: or

    Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?

  19. Isaiah 28:25 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof?

  20. Isaiah 29:16 אִם־ 'im- · Small word

    Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?

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