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. Ezekiel 15:6כֵּ֣ן · so
    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.
  2. Ezekiel 16:35לָכֵ֣ן · Therefore
    Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!
  3. Ezekiel 16:37לָ֠כֵן · therefore
    …therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.
  4. Ezekiel 17:19לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.
  5. Ezekiel 18:30לָכֵן֩ · Therefore
    Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.
  6. Ezekiel 20:27לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: In this way also your fathers blasphemed Me by their unfaithfulness against Me.
  7. Ezekiel 20:30לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?
  8. Ezekiel 20:36כֵּ֚ן · so
    Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
  9. Ezekiel 21:4לָ֠כֵן
    Because I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.
  10. Ezekiel 21:12לָכֵ֖ן · therefore
    Cry out and wail, O son of man, for the sword is wielded against My people; it is against all the princes of Israel! They are tossed to the sword with My people; therefore strike your thigh.
  11. Ezekiel 21:24לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have drawn attention to your guilt, exposing your transgressions, so that your sins are revealed in all your deeds—because you have come to remembrance—you shall be taken in hand.
  12. Ezekiel 22:4כֵּ֗ן
    …you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
  13. Ezekiel 22:19לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore; לָכֵן֙
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because all of you have become dross, behold, I will gather you into Jerusalem.
  14. Ezekiel 22:20כֵּ֤ן · so
    Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you.
  15. Ezekiel 22:22כֵּ֖ן · so
    As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted within the city. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out My wrath upon you.’”
  16. Ezekiel 23:9לָכֵ֥ן · Therefore
    Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.
  17. Ezekiel 23:22לָכֵ֣ן · Therefore
    Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side—
  18. Ezekiel 23:35לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.’”
  19. Ezekiel 23:44כֵּ֣ן
    And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.
  20. Ezekiel 24:6לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now rusted, whose rust will not come off! Empty it piece by piece; cast no lots for its contents.
  21. Ezekiel 24:9לָכֵ֗ן · Yes
    Yes, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.
  22. Ezekiel 25:4לָכֵ֡ן · therefore
    …therefore I will indeed give you as a possession to the people of the East. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.
  23. Ezekiel 25:7לָכֵ֡ן · therefore
    …therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’
  24. Ezekiel 25:9לָכֵן֩ · therefore
    …therefore I will indeed expose the flank of Moab beginning with its frontier cities—Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim—the glory of the land.
  25. Ezekiel 25:13לָכֵ֗ן · therefore
    …therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
  26. Ezekiel 25:16לָכֵ֗ן · therefore
    …therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.
  27. Ezekiel 26:3לָכֵ֗ן · therefore
    …therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
  28. Ezekiel 28:6לָכֵ֕ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,
  29. Ezekiel 28:7לָכֵ֗ן
    …behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.
  30. Ezekiel 29:8לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.
  31. Ezekiel 29:10לָכֵ֛ן · therefore
    …therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.
  32. Ezekiel 29:19לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will carry off its wealth, seize its spoil, and remove its plunder. This will be the wages for his army.
  33. Ezekiel 30:22לָכֵ֞ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.
  34. Ezekiel 31:5כֵּן֙
    Therefore it towered higher than all the trees of the field. Its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long as it spread them out because of the abundant waters.
  35. Ezekiel 31:10לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,
  36. Ezekiel 33:10כֵּ֤ן · that this is what
    Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’
  37. Ezekiel 33:25לָכֵן֩ · Therefore
    Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?
  38. Ezekiel 34:7לָכֵ֣ן · Therefore
    Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
  39. Ezekiel 34:9לָכֵן֙ · therefore
    …therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD!’
  40. Ezekiel 34:12כֵּ֖ן · so
    As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.
  41. Ezekiel 34:20לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
  42. Ezekiel 35:6לָכֵ֣ן · therefore
    …therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.
  43. Ezekiel 35:11לָכֵ֣ן · therefore
    …therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.
  44. Ezekiel 35:15כֵּ֣ן · so
    As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
  45. Ezekiel 36:3לָכֵן֙ · therefore
    …therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
  46. Ezekiel 36:4לָכֵן֙ · therefore
    …therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
  47. Ezekiel 36:5לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.
  48. Ezekiel 36:6לָכֵ֕ן · Therefore
    Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and tell the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I have spoken in My burning zeal because you have endured the reproach of the nations.
  49. Ezekiel 36:7לָכֵ֗ן · Therefore
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I have sworn with an uplifted hand that surely the nations around you will endure reproach of their own.