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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. 1 Samuel 3:17אִם־ · if
    “What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.”
  2. 1 Samuel 6:3אִֽם־ · If
    They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”
  3. 1 Samuel 6:9אִם־ · If; וְאִם־ · But if
    …but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
  4. 1 Samuel 7:3אִם־ · If
    Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
  5. 1 Samuel 8:19אִם־
    Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.
  6. 1 Samuel 11:3וְאִם־ · If
    “Hold off for seven days,” replied the elders of Jabesh, “and let us send messengers throughout Israel. If there is no one to save us, we will surrender to you.”
  7. 1 Samuel 12:14אִם־ · If
    If you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and if you do not rebel against the command of the LORD, and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the LORD your God, then all will be well.
  8. 1 Samuel 12:15וְאִם־ · But if
    But if you disobey the LORD and rebel against His command, then the hand of the LORD will be against you as it was against your fathers.
  9. 1 Samuel 12:25וְאִם־ · But if
    But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
  10. 1 Samuel 14:9אִם־ · If
    If they say, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stay where we are and will not go up to them.
  11. 1 Samuel 14:10וְאִם־ · But if
    But if they say, ‘Come on up,’ then we will go up, because this will be our sign that the LORD has delivered them into our hands.”
  12. 1 Samuel 14:39אִם־ · if
    As surely as the LORD who saves Israel lives, even if it is my son Jonathan, he must die!” But not one of the troops said a word.
  13. 1 Samuel 14:45אִם־ · not
    But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die—he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for with God’s help he has accomplished this today.” So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.
  14. 1 Samuel 15:17אִם־ · Although
    And Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, have you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel
  15. 1 Samuel 17:9אִם־ · If; וְאִם־ · But if
    If he is able to fight me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and work for us.”
  16. 1 Samuel 17:55אִם־ · I do not
    As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
  17. 1 Samuel 19:6אִם־ · David will not
    Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, David will not be put to death.”
  18. 1 Samuel 19:11אִם־ · If
    Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
  19. 1 Samuel 20:6אִם־ · If
    If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
  20. 1 Samuel 20:7אִם־ · If; וְאִם־ · but if
    If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
  21. 1 Samuel 20:8וְאִם־ · If
    Therefore show kindness to your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?”
  22. 1 Samuel 20:9אִם־ · If
    “Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”
  23. 1 Samuel 20:14אִם־ · as long as
    And as long as I live, treat me with the LORD’s loving devotion, that I may not die,
  24. 1 Samuel 20:21אִם־ · Now, if
    Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you, and there is no danger.
  25. 1 Samuel 20:22וְאִם־ · But if
    But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.
  26. 1 Samuel 20:29אִם־ · if
    …saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
  27. 1 Samuel 21:4אִם־ · but; אִם־ · provided that
    “There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
  28. 1 Samuel 21:5אִם־ · indeed
    David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the bodies of the young men are holy even on common missions. How much more so today!”
  29. 1 Samuel 21:6אִם־ · but
    So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
  30. 1 Samuel 21:9אִם־ · If
    The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
  31. 1 Samuel 23:23אִם־ · If
    Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”
  32. 1 Samuel 24:6אִם־ · that
    So he said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD’s anointed. May I never lift my hand against him, since he is the LORD’s anointed.”
  33. 1 Samuel 24:21אִם־ · that you will not; וְאִם־
    So now, swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s house.”
  34. 1 Samuel 25:22אִם־ · if {I let}
    May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one male belonging to Nabal survive until morning.”
  35. 1 Samuel 25:34אִם־ · no
    Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”
  36. 1 Samuel 26:10אִם־
    David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
  37. 1 Samuel 26:19אִם־ · If; וְאִ֣ם׀ · But if
    Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
  38. 1 Samuel 27:5אִם־ · If
    Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
  39. 1 Samuel 28:10אִֽם־ · no
    Then Saul swore to her by the LORD: “As surely as the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this.”
  40. 1 Samuel 30:15אִם־ · that you will not; וְאִם־ · [or]
    “Will you lead me to these raiders?” David asked. And the man replied, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hand of my master, and I will lead you to them.”
  41. 1 Samuel 30:17אִם־
    And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
  42. 1 Samuel 30:22אִם־
    …but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”
  43. 2 Samuel 3:13אִם־ · unless
    “Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.”