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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. Nehemiah 1:9 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    but if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.

  2. Nehemiah 2:2 אִ֖ם 'im · Small word: except

    And the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.

  3. Nehemiah 2:5 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favor in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.

  4. Nehemiah 2:5 וְאִם־ ve.'im- · Small word: and if

    And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favor in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.

  5. Nehemiah 2:7 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through till I come unto Judah;

  6. Nehemiah 2:12 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: except

    And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

  7. Nehemiah 4:3 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.

  8. Nehemiah 7:61 אִ֥ם 'im · Small word: if

    And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:

  9. Nehemiah 13:21 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

  10. Nehemiah 13:25 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

  11. Nehemiah 13:25 וְאִם־ ve.'im- · Small word: and if

    And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

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