כֵּן

ken

Hebrew H3651 Adverb 765 occurrences in 731 verses
כֵּן right

adv

adj

1. right, just, honest, true, veritable

a. right, just, honest

b. correct

c. true, veritable

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 731 verses

  1. So Amnon’s attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.

  2. 2 Samuel 13:35 כֵּ֥ן

    So Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the sons of the king have arrived! It is just as your servant said.”

  3. 2 Samuel 14:17 כֵּ֣ן

    And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”

  4. 2 Samuel 15:1 כֵ֔ן

    Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.

  5. 2 Samuel 16:10 כֵּֽן׃ס

    But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”

  6. 2 Samuel 16:19 כֵּ֖ן

    Furthermore, whom should I serve if not the son? As I served in your father’s presence, so also I will serve in yours.”

  7. 2 Samuel 16:23 כֵּ֚ן

    Now in those days the advice of Ahithophel was like the consultation of the word of God. Such was the regard that both David and Absalom had for Ahithophel’s advice.

  8. But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree.

  9. 2 Samuel 20:18 וְכֵ֥ן

    Then the woman said, “Long ago they used to say, ‘Seek counsel at Abel,’ and that is how disputes were settled.

  10. That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city.” “Look,” the woman replied, “his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

  11. 2 Samuel 21:14 כֵֽן׃פ

    And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.

  12. Some time later at Gob, there was another battle with the Philistines. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, one of the descendants of Rapha.

  13. 2 Samuel 22:50 כֵּ֛ן

    Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.

  14. 2 Samuel 23:5 כֵ֥ן

    Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?

  15. After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

  16. 1 Kings 1:30 כֵּ֥ן

    I will carry out this very day exactly what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”

  17. 1 Kings 1:36 כֵּ֚ן

    “Amen,” replied Benaiah son of Jehoiada. “May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so declare it.

  18. 1 Kings 1:37 כֵּ֖ן

    Just as the LORD was with my lord the king, so may He be with Solomon and make his throne even greater than that of my lord King David.”

  19. 1 Kings 2:7 כֵן֙

    But show loving devotion to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, because they stood by me when I fled from your brother Absalom.

  20. 1 Kings 2:38 כֵּ֖ן

    “The sentence is fair,” Shimei replied. “Your servant will do as my lord the king has spoken.” And Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.

  21. 1 Kings 6:26 וְכֵ֖ן

    and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.

  22. 1 Kings 6:33 וְכֵ֥ן

    In the same way he made four-sided doorposts of olive wood for the sanctuary entrance.

  23. 1 Kings 7:18 וְכֵ֣ן

    Likewise, he made the pillars with two rows of pomegranates around each grating to cover each capital atop the pillars.

  24. 1 Kings 9:9 כֵּ֗ן

    And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”

  25. 1 Kings 10:12 כֵ֞ן

    The king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had such almug wood been brought in, nor has such been seen to this day.)

  26. 1 Kings 10:20 כֵ֖ן

    Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.

  27. 1 Kings 10:29 וְ֠כֵן

    A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.

  28. 1 Kings 11:8 וְכֵ֣ן

    He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

  29. 1 Kings 12:32 כֵּ֤ן

    And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.

  30. 1 Kings 13:9 כֵ֣ן׀

    For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”

  31. 1 Kings 14:4 כֵּן֙

    Jeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

  32. 1 Kings 14:10 לָכֵ֗ן

    Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!

  33. 1 Kings 20:23 כֵּ֖ן

    Meanwhile, the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they prevailed over us. Instead, we should fight them on the plains; surely then we will prevail.

  34. 1 Kings 20:25 כֵּֽן׃פ

    And you must raise an army like the one you have lost—horse for horse and chariot for chariot—so we can fight the Israelites on the plain, where we will surely prevail.” And the king approved their plan and acted accordingly.

  35. 1 Kings 20:40 כֵּ֥ן

    But while your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared.” And the king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you have pronounced it on yourself.”

  36. 1 Kings 22:8 כֵּֽן׃

    The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man who can ask the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.

  37. 1 Kings 22:12 כֵּ֖ן

    And all the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and prosper, for the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

  38. 1 Kings 22:19 לָכֵ֖ן

    Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.

  39. 1 Kings 22:22 כֵֽן׃

    And he replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ ‘You will surely entice him and prevail,’ said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.’

  40. 2 Kings 1:4 וְלָכֵן֙

    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’” So Elijah departed.

  41. 2 Kings 1:6 לָ֠כֵן

    They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’”

  42. 2 Kings 1:16 לָ֠כֵן

    And Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is that why you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.”

  43. 2 Kings 2:10 כֵ֔ן

    “You have requested a difficult thing,” said Elijah. “Nevertheless, if you see me as I am taken from you, it will be yours. But if not, then it will not be so.”

  44. 2 Kings 6:24 כֵ֔ן

    Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.

  45. 2 Kings 7:9 כֵ֣ן׀

    Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”

  46. 2 Kings 7:20 כֵּ֑ן

    And that is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

  47. 2 Kings 15:12 כֵֽן׃פ

    So the word of the LORD spoken to Jehu was fulfilled: “Four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”

  48. 2 Kings 16:11 כֵּ֤ן

    And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it by the time King Ahaz had returned.

  49. 2 Kings 17:9 כֵ֔ן

    The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.

  50. 2 Kings 18:21 כֵּ֚ן

    Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

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