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אִם

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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. Jeremiah 7:5אִם־ · if; אִם־ · if
    For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
  2. Jeremiah 7:23אִֽם־
    …but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
  3. Jeremiah 7:32אִם־
    So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
  4. Jeremiah 8:4אִם־
    So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?
  5. Jeremiah 8:19אִם־ · Is her
    Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
  6. Jeremiah 8:22אִם־
    Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
  7. Jeremiah 9:9אִ֚ם · on
    Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”
  8. Jeremiah 9:24אִם־
    But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
  9. Jeremiah 12:16אִם־ · if
    And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.
  10. Jeremiah 12:17וְאִ֖ם · But if
    But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”
  11. Jeremiah 13:17וְאִם֙ · But if
    But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
  12. Jeremiah 14:7אִם־ · Although
    Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.
  13. Jeremiah 14:18אִם־ · If; וְאִם֙ · if
    If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
  14. Jeremiah 14:19אִם־
    Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
  15. Jeremiah 14:22וְאִם־
    Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
  16. Jeremiah 15:1אִם־ · Even if
    Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!
  17. Jeremiah 15:11אִם־ · Surely; אִם־ · surely I will
    The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.
  18. Jeremiah 15:19אִם־ · If; וְאִם־ · And if
    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.
  19. Jeremiah 16:15אִם־
    Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.
  20. Jeremiah 17:24אִם־ · If
    If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,
  21. Jeremiah 17:27וְאִם־ · But if
    But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”
  22. Jeremiah 18:14אִם־ · Or
    Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?
  23. Jeremiah 19:6אִם־
    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.
  24. Jeremiah 20:3אִם־
    The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
  25. Jeremiah 22:4אִם־ · if
    For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.
  26. Jeremiah 22:5וְאִם֙ · But if
    But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
  27. Jeremiah 22:6אִם־ · but I will surely
    For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
  28. Jeremiah 22:17אִם־
    “But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
  29. Jeremiah 22:24אִם־ · if
    “As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
  30. Jeremiah 22:28אִ֨ם־
    Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
  31. Jeremiah 23:8אִם־ · [they will say]
    Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will dwell once more in their own land.”
  32. Jeremiah 23:22וְאִֽם־ · But if
    But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”
  33. Jeremiah 23:24אִם־ · Can
    “Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
  34. Jeremiah 23:38וְאִם־ · But if
    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,
  35. Jeremiah 26:4אִם־ · If
    And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘If you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you,
  36. Jeremiah 26:15אִם־ · if
    But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upon its residents; for truly the LORD has sent me to speak all these words in your hearing.”
  37. Jeremiah 27:18וְאִם־ · If; וְאִם־ · and
    If they are indeed prophets and the word of the LORD is with them, let them now plead with the LORD of Hosts that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, not be taken to Babylon.
  38. Jeremiah 30:6אִם־ · Can
    Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?
  39. Jeremiah 31:20אִ֚ם
    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.
  40. Jeremiah 31:30אִם־
    Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
  41. Jeremiah 31:36אִם־ · Only if
    “Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”
  42. Jeremiah 31:37אִם־ · Only if
    This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.
  43. Jeremiah 33:20אִם־ · If
    “This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
  44. Jeremiah 33:25אִם־ · If
    This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
  45. Jeremiah 37:10אִם־ · if
    Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”