Strong H518H518Aאִם

if

One of the 5 senses of Strong H518

Transliteration
'im
Pronunciation
eem
Morphology
Hebrew Conditional

Definition

STEP sense: if

Exact lexical definition: if

Part of speech: particle

BDB context: אִם conj . hypoth. part . if Interrog. part .

General definition

A primitive particle; used very widely as {demonstrative} lo !; {interrogitive} whether ?; or {conditional} if 6
although; also Oh {that !} when; hence as a {negative} not: - ({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 Bible

Strong H518A appears in 9 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • but1
  • even1
  • moreover1
  • or1
  • pass1
  • see1
  • so1
  • surely1
  • thou1

First verses

  1. Genesis 24:21
    And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.
  2. Genesis 38:9
    And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
  3. Numbers 32:11
    Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
  4. 1 Samuel 20:14
    And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the Lord, that I die not:
  5. 2 Samuel 17:13
    Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
  6. 2 Chronicles 33:8
    Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
  7. Job 14:5
    Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
  8. Jeremiah 23:38
    But since ye say, The burden of the Lord; therefore thus saith the Lord; Because ye say this word, The burden of the Lord, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord;
  9. Joel 1:2
    Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
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