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אִם

imifHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentConditional1,070 occurrences37 books931 verses

Definition

a primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
Traditional renderings: (and, can-, doubtless, if, that) (not), + but, either, + except, + more(-over if, than), neither, nevertheless, nor, oh that, or, + save (only, -ing), seeing, since, sith, + surely (no more, none, not), though, + of a truth, + unless, + verily, when, whereas, whether, while, + yet.

In the Greek Old Testament

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

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,070 total
  1. 2 Chronicles 30:9אִם־ · if
    For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 33:8אִם־ · if
    I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”
  3. Ezra 2:59אִ֥ם
    The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:
  4. Nehemiah 1:9אִם־ · then even if
    …but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’
  5. Nehemiah 2:2אִ֖ם
    …so the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, though you are not ill? This could only be sadness of the heart.” I was overwhelmed with fear
  6. Nehemiah 2:5אִם־ · If; וְאִם־ · and if
    …and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it.”
  7. Nehemiah 2:7אִם־ · If
    I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.
  8. Nehemiah 2:12אִם־
    I set out at night with a few men. I did not tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal with me was the one on which I was riding.
  9. Nehemiah 4:3אִם־ · If
    Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”
  10. Nehemiah 7:61אִ֥ם
    The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:
  11. Nehemiah 13:21אִם־ · If
    …but I warned them, “Why are you camping in front of the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they did not return on the Sabbath.
  12. Nehemiah 13:25אִם־ · You must not; וְאִם־
    I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!
  13. Esther 1:19אִם־ · So if
    So if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and that her royal position shall be given to a woman better than she.
  14. Esther 2:14אִם־
    She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.
  15. Esther 2:15אִ֣ם
    Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.
  16. Esther 3:9אִם־ · If
    If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”
  17. Esther 4:14אִם־ · if; אִם־ · if perhaps
    For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
  18. Esther 5:4אִם־ · If
    “If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”
  19. Esther 5:8אִם־ · If; וְאִם־ · and if
    If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”
  20. Esther 5:12אִם־ · but
    “What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she prepared, and I am invited back tomorrow along with the king.
  21. Esther 6:13אִ֣ם · Since
    Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”
  22. Esther 7:3אִם־ · If; וְאִם־ · and if
    Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
  23. Esther 8:5אִם־ · If; וְאִם־
    “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
  24. Esther 9:13אִם־ · If
    Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
  25. Job 1:11אִם־ · and he will surely
    But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
  26. Job 2:5אִם־ · and he will surely
    But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
  27. Job 4:17אִ֥ם · or
    ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
  28. Job 6:5אִ֥ם · or
    Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?
  29. Job 6:6אִם־ · or
    Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
  30. Job 6:12אִם־ · or; אִֽם־
    Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?
  31. Job 6:13הַאִ֬ם · [Is] there any
    Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?
  32. Job 6:28אִם־
    But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?
  33. Job 6:30אִם־ · Can
    Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
  34. Job 7:4אִם־ · When
    When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
  35. Job 7:12אִם־ · or
    Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?
  36. Job 8:3וְאִם־
    Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
  37. Job 8:4אִם־ · When
    When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
  38. Job 8:5אִם־ · But if
    But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
  39. Job 8:6אִם־ · if
    …if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
  40. Job 8:18אִם־ · If
    If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
  41. Job 9:3אִם־ · If
    If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
  42. Job 9:15אִם־ · even if
    For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
  43. Job 9:16אִם־ · If
    If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.