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
- Numbers 36:5 כֵּ֛ן
So at the word of the LORD, Moses commanded the Israelites: “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks correctly.
- Numbers 36:10 כֵּ֥ן
So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Deuteronomy 3:21 כֵּֽן־
And at that time I commanded Joshua: “Your own eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.
- Deuteronomy 4:5 כֵּ֔ן
See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
- Deuteronomy 5:15 כֵּ֗ן
Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
- Deuteronomy 7:19 כֵּֽן־
the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.
- Deuteronomy 8:20 כֵּ֖ן
Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 10:9 כֵּ֞ן
That is why Levi has no portion or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God promised him.
- Deuteronomy 12:4 כֵּ֔ן
You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way.
- Deuteronomy 12:22 כֵּ֖ן
Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
- Deuteronomy 12:30 כֵּ֖ן
be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
- Deuteronomy 12:31 כֵ֔ן
You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
- Deuteronomy 15:11 כֵּ֞ן
For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
- Deuteronomy 15:15 כֵּ֞ן
Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.
- Deuteronomy 15:17 כֵּֽן׃
then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.
- Deuteronomy 18:14 כֵ֔ן
Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
- Deuteronomy 19:7 כֵּ֛ן
This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
- Deuteronomy 20:15 כֵּ֤ן
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
- Deuteronomy 21:13 כֵּ֜ן
and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
- Deuteronomy 22:3 וְכֵ֧ןוְכֵ֣ןוְכֵ֣ן
And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
- Deuteronomy 22:26 כֵּ֖ן
Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
- Deuteronomy 24:18 כֵּ֞ן
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
- Deuteronomy 24:22 כֵּ֞ן
Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
- Deuteronomy 28:63 כֵּ֣ן
Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
- Joshua 1:17 כֵּ֖ן
Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. And may the LORD your God be with you, as He was with Moses.
- Joshua 2:4 כֵּ֗ן
But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
- Joshua 2:21 כֶּן־
“Let it be as you say,” she replied, and she sent them away. And when they had gone, she tied the scarlet cord in the window.
- Joshua 4:8 כֵ֣ן
Thus the Israelites did as Joshua had commanded them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each tribe of Israel, just as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them to the camp, where they set them down.
- Joshua 5:15 כֵּֽן׃
The Commander of the LORD’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.
- Joshua 7:26 כֵּ֠ן
And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.
- Joshua 8:34 כֵ֗ן
Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.
- Joshua 9:26 כֵּ֑ן
So Joshua did this and delivered them from the hands of the Israelites, and they did not kill the Gibeonites.
- Joshua 10:1 כֵּן־
Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction —doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.
- Joshua 10:23 כֵ֔ן
So they brought the five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.
- Joshua 10:26 כֵן֙
After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.
- Joshua 10:39 כֵּן־
And they captured Debir, its king, and all its villages. They put them to the sword and devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. Joshua did to Debir and its king as he had done to Hebron and as he had done to Libnah and its king.
- Joshua 11:15 כֵּן־וְכֵן֙
As the LORD had commanded His servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua. That is what Joshua did, leaving nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Joshua 14:5 כֵּ֥ן
So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
- Joshua 14:14 כֵּ֣ן
Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
- Joshua 21:42 כֵּ֖ן
Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.
- Joshua 23:15 כֵּן֩
But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.
- Judges 1:7 כֵּ֥ן
Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
- Judges 2:17 כֵֽן׃
Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.
- Judges 5:15 כֵּ֣ן
The princes of Issachar were with Deborah, and Issachar was with Barak, rushing into the valley at his heels. In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.
- Judges 5:31 כֵּ֠ן
So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.
- Judges 6:20 כֵּֽן׃
And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so.
- Judges 6:22 כֵּ֤ן
When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he said, “Oh no, Lord GOD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”
- Judges 6:38 כֵ֕ן
And that is what happened. When Gideon arose the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew—a bowlful of water.
- Judges 6:40 כֵּ֖ן
And that night God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and dew covered the ground.
- Judges 7:17 וְכֵ֣ןכֵּ֥ן
“Watch me and do as I do,” Gideon said. “When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do exactly as I do.