Keraia
Lexicon

כֵּן

kenrightHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentAdverb765 occurrences35 books731 verses

Definition

from H3559; properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
Traditional renderings: after that (this, -ward, -wards), as... as, (for-) asmuch as yet, be (for which) cause, following, howbeit, in (the) like (manner, -wise), × the more, right, (even) so, state, straightway, such (thing), surely, there (where) -fore, this, thus, true, well, × you.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders כֵּן:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

765 total
  1. Jeremiah 13:11כֵּ֣ן · so {I have made}
    For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.
  2. Jeremiah 14:10כֵּ֤ן · Truly
    This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”
  3. Jeremiah 14:15לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!
  4. Jeremiah 15:19לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.
  5. Jeremiah 16:14לָכֵ֛ן · Yet
    Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
  6. Jeremiah 16:16כֵ֗ן
    But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.
  7. Jeremiah 16:21לָכֵן֙ · Therefore
    “Therefore behold, I will inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is the LORD.
  8. Jeremiah 18:6כֵּן־ · so
    “O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
  9. Jeremiah 18:13לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
  10. Jeremiah 18:21לָכֵן֩ · Therefore
    Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
  11. Jeremiah 19:6לָכֵ֞ן · So
    So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
  12. Jeremiah 19:12כֵּֽן־ · This is what
    This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.
  13. Jeremiah 20:11כֵּ֛ן
    But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
  14. Jeremiah 21:7כֵ֣ן
    ‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
  15. Jeremiah 22:18לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’
  16. Jeremiah 23:2לָ֠כֵן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.
  17. Jeremiah 23:7לָכֵ֛ן · So
    So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
  18. Jeremiah 23:10כֵֽן׃
    For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.
  19. Jeremiah 23:12לָכֵן֩ · Therefore
    “Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
  20. Jeremiah 23:15לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
  21. Jeremiah 23:30לָכֵ֛ן · Therefore
    “Therefore behold,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words they attribute to Me.”
  22. Jeremiah 23:38לָכֵ֗ן · then
    But if you claim, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ and I specifically told you not to make this claim,
  23. Jeremiah 23:39לָכֵ֣ן · therefore
    …therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.
  24. Jeremiah 24:5כֵּֽן־ · so
    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
  25. Jeremiah 24:8כֵּ֣ן · so
    But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.
  26. Jeremiah 25:8לָכֵ֕ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
  27. Jeremiah 28:6כֵּ֖ן · so
    “Amen!” Jeremiah said. “May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied, and may He restore the articles of His house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.
  28. Jeremiah 28:16לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
  29. Jeremiah 29:28כֵּ֞ן
    For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”
  30. Jeremiah 29:32לָכֵ֞ן
    …this is what the LORD says: ‘I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
  31. Jeremiah 30:16לָכֵ֞ן · Nevertheless
    Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them—will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.
  32. Jeremiah 31:3כֵּ֖ן
    The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
  33. Jeremiah 31:20כֵּ֗ן
    Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.
  34. Jeremiah 31:28כֵּ֣ן · so
    Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.
  35. Jeremiah 32:28לָכֵ֕ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it.
  36. Jeremiah 32:36לָכֵ֛ן · therefore
    Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
  37. Jeremiah 32:42כֵּ֣ן · so
    For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.
  38. Jeremiah 33:22כֵּ֣ן · so too
    As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
  39. Jeremiah 34:5כֵּ֚ן · so
    …you will die in peace. As spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so people will burn spices for you and lament, ‘Alas, O master!’ For I Myself have spoken this word, declares the LORD.”
  40. Jeremiah 34:11כֵ֔ן
    …but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
  41. Jeremiah 34:17לָכֵן֮ · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
  42. Jeremiah 35:17לָ֠כֵן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”
  43. Jeremiah 35:19לָכֵ֗ן
    …this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Jonadab son of Rechab will never fail to have a man to stand before Me.’”
  44. Jeremiah 36:30לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.
  45. Jeremiah 38:4כֵּ֡ן
    Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors who remain in this city, as well as all the people, by speaking such words to them; this man is not seeking the well-being of these people, but their ruin.”
  46. Jeremiah 38:12כֵּֽן׃ · so
    Ebed-melech the Cushite cried out to Jeremiah, “Put these worn-out rags and clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,
  47. Jeremiah 39:12כֵּ֖ן
    “Take him, look after him, and do not let any harm come to him; do for him whatever he says.”
  48. Jeremiah 42:5כֵּ֥ן
    Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act upon every word that the LORD your God sends you to tell us.
  49. Jeremiah 42:15לָכֵ֛ן
    …then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and reside there,
  50. Jeremiah 42:18כֵּ֣ן · so
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’