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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. Exodus 8:2 וְאִם־ ve.'im- · Small word: and if

    And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

  2. Exodus 8:21 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: except

    Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon they servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.

  3. Exodus 9:2 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: except

    For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

  4. Exodus 10:4 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: except

    Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border:

  5. Exodus 12:4 וְאִם־ ve.'im- · Small word: and if

    and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb.

  6. Exodus 12:9 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: except

    Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof.

  7. Exodus 13:13 וְאִם־ ve.'im- · Small word: and if

    And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck: and all the first-born of man among thy sons shalt thou redeem.

  8. Exodus 15:26 אִם־ 'im- · Small word

    and he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for I am Jehovah that healeth thee.

  9. Exodus 16:4 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: or

    Then said Jehovah unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.

  10. Exodus 17:7 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: or

    And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?

  11. Exodus 18:23 אִ֣ם 'im · Small word: if

    If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.

  12. Exodus 19:5 אִם־ 'im- · Small word

    Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:

  13. Exodus 19:13 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: whether

    no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, he shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

  14. Exodus 19:13 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: or

    no hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, he shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

  15. Exodus 20:25 וְאִם־ ve.'im- · Small word: and if

    And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

  16. Exodus 21:3 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

  17. Exodus 21:3 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

  18. Exodus 21:4 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

  19. Exodus 21:5 וְאִם־ ve.'im- · Small word: and if

    But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

  20. Exodus 21:8 אִם־ 'im- · Small word: if

    If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

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