Keraia
Lexicon

כֵּן

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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 42:20כֵּ֥ן
    For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.’
  2. Jeremiah 44:11לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah.
  3. Jeremiah 44:23כֵּ֞ן
    Because you burned incense and sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in His instruction, His statutes, and His testimonies, this disaster has befallen you, as you see today.”
  4. Jeremiah 44:26לָכֵן֙ · Nevertheless
    Nevertheless, hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah living in Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by My great name, says the LORD, that never again will any man of Judah living in the land of Egypt invoke My name or say, ‘As surely as the Lord GOD lives.’
  5. Jeremiah 46:26כֵ֛ן · this
    I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.
  6. Jeremiah 48:11כֵּ֗ן
    Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
  7. Jeremiah 48:12לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.
  8. Jeremiah 48:30כֵ֑ן; כֵ֥ן · as
    I know his insolence,” declares the LORD, “but it is futile. His boasting is as empty as his deeds.
  9. Jeremiah 48:31כֵּן֙
    Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
  10. Jeremiah 48:36כֵּ֞ן; כֵּ֛ן
    Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished.
  11. Jeremiah 49:2לָכֵ֡ן · Therefore
    Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.
  12. Jeremiah 49:6כֵ֗ן
    Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.
  13. Jeremiah 49:20לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
  14. Jeremiah 49:26לָכֵ֛ן · For
    For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
  15. Jeremiah 50:18לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I will punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria.
  16. Jeremiah 50:30לָכֵ֛ן · Therefore
    Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
  17. Jeremiah 50:39לָכֵ֗ן · So
    So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there and ostriches will dwell there. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
  18. Jeremiah 50:45לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
  19. Jeremiah 51:7כֵּ֖ן
    Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
  20. Jeremiah 51:36לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
  21. Jeremiah 51:47לָכֵן֙ · Therefore
    Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
  22. Jeremiah 51:52לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    “Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
  23. Lamentations 1:8כֵּ֖ן
    Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
  24. Lamentations 3:21כֵּ֥ן
    Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
  25. Lamentations 3:24כֵּ֖ן
    “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
  26. Ezekiel 1:28כֵּ֣ן
    The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking.
  27. Ezekiel 5:7לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’
  28. Ezekiel 5:8לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
  29. Ezekiel 5:10לָכֵ֗ן · As a result
    As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
  30. Ezekiel 5:11לָכֵ֣ן · Therefore
    Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.
  31. Ezekiel 7:20כֵּ֛ן
    His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.
  32. Ezekiel 11:4לָכֵ֖ן · Therefore
    Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, O son of man!”
  33. Ezekiel 11:5כֵּ֥ן · That is what
    And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me and told me to declare that this is what the LORD says: “That is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; and I know the thoughts that arise in your minds.
  34. Ezekiel 11:7לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: The slain you have laid within this city are the meat, and the city is the pot; but I will remove you from it.
  35. Ezekiel 11:16לָכֵ֣ן · Therefore
    Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’
  36. Ezekiel 11:17לָכֵ֣ן · Therefore
    Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries to which you have been scattered, and I will give back to you the land of Israel.’
  37. Ezekiel 12:7כֵּן֮
    So I did as I was commanded. I brought out my bags for exile by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall by hand. I took my belongings out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulder as they watched.
  38. Ezekiel 12:11כֵּ֚ן · so
    You are to say, ‘I am a sign to you.’ Just as it happened here, so will it be done to them; they will go into exile as captives.
  39. Ezekiel 12:23לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will put an end to this proverb, and in Israel they will no longer recite it.’ But say to them: ‘The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled.
  40. Ezekiel 12:28לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘None of My words will be delayed any longer. The message I speak will be fulfilled, declares the Lord GOD.’”
  41. Ezekiel 13:8לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore; לָכֵן֙
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have uttered vain words and seen false visions, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.
  42. Ezekiel 13:13לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.
  43. Ezekiel 13:20לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: See, I am against the magic charms with which you ensnare souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms. So I will free the souls you have ensnared like birds.
  44. Ezekiel 13:23לָכֵ֗ן · therefore
    …therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will deliver My people from your hands. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
  45. Ezekiel 14:4לָכֵ֣ן · Therefore
    Therefore speak to them and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When any Israelite sets up idols in his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him according to his great idolatry,
  46. Ezekiel 14:6לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces away from all your abominations.
  47. Ezekiel 15:6לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.