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)
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Concordance 731 verses
- Ezekiel 28:7 לָכֵ֗ן
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.
- Ezekiel 29:8 לָכֵ֗ן
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.
- Ezekiel 29:10 לָכֵ֛ן
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.
- Ezekiel 29:19 לָכֵ֗ן
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.
- Ezekiel 30:22 לָכֵ֞ן
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.
- Ezekiel 31:5 כֵּן֙
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.
- Ezekiel 31:10 לָכֵ֗ן
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,
- Ezekiel 33:10 כֵּ֤ן
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?’
- Ezekiel 33:25 לָכֵן֩
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?
- Ezekiel 34:7 לָכֵ֣ן
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
- Ezekiel 34:9 לָכֵן֙
therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD!’
- Ezekiel 34:12 כֵּ֖ן
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.
- Ezekiel 34:20 לָכֵ֗ן
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
- Ezekiel 35:6 לָכֵ֣ן
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.
- Ezekiel 35:11 לָכֵ֣ן
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.
- Ezekiel 35:15 כֵּ֣ן
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.
- Ezekiel 36:3 לָכֵן֙
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,
- Ezekiel 36:4 לָכֵן֙
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.
- Ezekiel 36:5 לָכֵ֗ן
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.
- Ezekiel 36:6 לָכֵ֕ן
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.
- Ezekiel 36:7 לָכֵ֗ן
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.
- Ezekiel 36:14 לָכֵ֗ן
therefore you will no longer devour men or deprive your nation of its children, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 36:22 לָכֵ֞ן
Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.
- Ezekiel 36:38 כֵּ֤ן
Like the numerous flocks for sacrifices at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 37:12 לָכֵן֩
Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
- Ezekiel 38:14 לָכֵן֙
Therefore prophesy, son of man, and tell Gog that this is what the Lord GOD says: On that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not take notice of this?
- Ezekiel 39:25 לָכֵ֗ן
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.
- Ezekiel 40:16 וְכֵ֖ן
The gate chambers and their side pillars had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticos also had windows all around on the inside. Each side pillar was decorated with palm trees.
- Ezekiel 41:7 כֵּ֥ןוְכֵ֧ן
The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.
- Ezekiel 42:6 כֵּ֣ן
For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.
- Ezekiel 42:11 כֵּ֣ן
with a passageway in front of them, just like the chambers that were on the north. They had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions.
- Ezekiel 44:12 כֵּן֩
Because they ministered before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I swore with an uplifted hand concerning them that they would bear the consequences of their iniquity, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 45:20 וְכֵ֤ן
You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for anyone who strays unintentionally or in ignorance. In this way you will make atonement for the temple.
- Hosea 2:6 לָכֵ֛ן
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
- Hosea 2:9 לָכֵ֣ן
Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.
- Hosea 2:14 לָכֵ֗ן
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
- Hosea 4:3 כֵּ֣ן׀
Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
- Hosea 4:7 כֵּ֣ן
The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.
- Hosea 4:13 כֵּ֗ן
They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.
- Hosea 6:5 כֵּ֗ן
Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.
- Hosea 11:2 כֵּ֚ן
But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
- Hosea 13:3 לָכֵ֗ן
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
- Hosea 13:6 כֵּ֖ן
When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
- Joel 2:4 כֵּ֥ן
Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.
- Joel 2:28 כֵ֗ן
And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
- Amos 3:2 כֵּן֙
“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
- Amos 3:11 לָכֵ֗ן
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”
- Amos 3:12 כֵּ֣ן
This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.
- Amos 4:5 כֵ֤ן
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
- Amos 4:12 לָכֵ֕ן
“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!