כֵּן
ken
adv
adj
1. right, just, honest, true, veritable
a. right, just, honest
b. correct
c. true, veritable
adv
forasmuch as, since
adv
1. so, therefore, thus
a. thus, so
b. just so
c. therefore
d. so...as (paired with adv)
e. then
f. forasmuch as (in phrase)
g. (with prep)
1. therefore, this being so (specific)
2. hitherto
3. therefore, on this ground (general)
4. afterwards
5. in such case
Aramaic equivalent: ken (כֵּן "thus" H3652)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 731 verses
- Jeremiah 24:8 כֵּ֣ן
But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.
- Jeremiah 25:8 לָכֵ֕ן
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
- Jeremiah 28:6 כֵּ֖ן
“Amen!” Jeremiah said. “May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied, and may He restore the articles of His house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.
- Jeremiah 28:16 לָכֵ֗ן
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
- Jeremiah 29:28 כֵּ֞ן
For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”
- Jeremiah 29:32 לָכֵ֞ן
this is what the LORD says: ‘I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
- Jeremiah 30:16 לָכֵ֞ן
Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them— will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.
- Jeremiah 31:3 כֵּ֖ן
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
- Jeremiah 31:20 כֵּ֗ן
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.
- Jeremiah 31:28 כֵּ֣ן
Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 32:28 לָכֵ֕ן
Therefore this is what the LORD says: Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it.
- Jeremiah 32:36 לָכֵ֛ן
Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
- Jeremiah 32:42 כֵּ֣ן
For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.
- Jeremiah 33:22 כֵּ֣ן
As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
- Jeremiah 34:5 כֵּ֚ן
you will die in peace. As spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so people will burn spices for you and lament, ‘Alas, O master!’ For I Myself have spoken this word, declares the LORD.”
- Jeremiah 34:11 כֵ֔ן
but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
- Jeremiah 34:17 לָכֵן֮
Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Jeremiah 35:17 לָ֠כֵן
Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”
- Jeremiah 35:19 לָכֵ֗ן
this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Jonadab son of Rechab will never fail to have a man to stand before Me.’”
- Jeremiah 36:30 לָכֵ֞ן
Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.
- Jeremiah 38:4 כֵּ֡ן
Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors who remain in this city, as well as all the people, by speaking such words to them; this man is not seeking the well-being of these people, but their ruin.”
- Jeremiah 38:12 כֵּֽן׃
Ebed-melech the Cushite cried out to Jeremiah, “Put these worn-out rags and clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,
- Jeremiah 39:12 כֵּ֖ן
“Take him, look after him, and do not let any harm come to him; do for him whatever he says.”
- Jeremiah 42:5 כֵּ֥ן
Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act upon every word that the LORD your God sends you to tell us.
- Jeremiah 42:15 לָכֵ֛ן
then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and reside there,
- Jeremiah 42:18 כֵּ֣ן
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’
- Jeremiah 42:20 כֵּ֥ן
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.’
- Jeremiah 44:11 לָכֵ֗ן
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.
- Jeremiah 44:23 כֵּ֞ן
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.”
- Jeremiah 44:26 לָכֵן֙
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.’
- Jeremiah 46:26 כֵ֛ן
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.
- Jeremiah 48:11 כֵּ֗ן
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.
- Jeremiah 48:12 לָכֵ֞ן
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.
- Jeremiah 48:30 כֵ֑ןכֵ֥ן
I know his insolence,” declares the LORD, “but it is futile. His boasting is as empty as his deeds.
- Jeremiah 48:31 כֵּן֙
Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
- Jeremiah 48:36 כֵּ֞ןכֵּ֛ן
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.
- Jeremiah 49:2 לָכֵ֡ן
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.
- Jeremiah 49:6 כֵ֗ן
Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 49:20 לָכֵ֞ן
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.
- Jeremiah 49:26 לָכֵ֛ן
For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 50:18 לָכֵ֗ן
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.
- Jeremiah 50:30 לָכֵ֛ן
Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 50:39 לָכֵ֗ן
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.
- Jeremiah 50:45 לָכֵ֞ן
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.
- Jeremiah 51:7 כֵּ֖ן
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.
- Jeremiah 51:36 לָכֵ֗ן
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.
- Jeremiah 51:47 לָכֵן֙
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.
- Jeremiah 51:52 לָכֵ֞ן
“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
- Lamentations 1:8 כֵּ֖ן
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.
- Lamentations 3:21 כֵּ֥ן
Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope: