TBESH · H3651A
כֵּן · ken · right
adv adj 1) right, just, honest, true, veritable 1a) right, just, honest 1b) correct 1c) true, veritable
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כֵּן (ken) means “right” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: kane Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
כֵּן · ken · right
adv adj 1) right, just, honest, true, veritable 1a) right, just, honest 1b) correct 1c) true, veritable
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[כִּי עַל] כֵּן · [ki al] ken · as
adv forasmuch as, since
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כֵּן · ken · so
adv 1) so, therefore, thus 1a) thus, so 1b) just so 1c) therefore 1d) so...as (paired with adv) 1e) then 1f) forasmuch as (in phrase) 1g) (with prep) 1g1) therefore, this being so (specific) 1g2) hitherto 1g3) therefore, on this ground (general) 1g4) afterwards 1g5) in such case Aramaic equivalent: ken (כֵּן "thus" H3652)
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from H3559 (כּוּן); properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
KJV glosses: [phrase] after that (this, -ward, -wards), as... as, [phrase] (for-) asmuch as yet, [phrase] be (for which) cause, [phrase] following, howbeit, in (the) like (manner, -wise), [idiom] the more, right, (even) so, state, straightway, such (thing), surely, [phrase] there (where) -fore, this, thus, true, well, [idiom] you.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| therefore | 159 |
| so | 107 |
| this | 23 |
| the same | 12 |
| that | 10 |
| in this way | 8 |
| this is what | 6 |
| vvv | 6 |
| likewise | 5 |
| and | 4 |
| and so | 4 |
| like this | 4 |
| as instructed | 3 |
| honest men | 3 |
| it | 3 |
| such | 3 |
| such is | 3 |
| that is what | 3 |
| then | 3 |
| very well | 3 |
| yes | 3 |
| accordingly | 2 |
| and the same | 2 |
| are honest | 2 |
| as | 2 |
| correctly | 2 |
| for | 2 |
| in the same way | 2 |
| nevertheless | 2 |
| right | 2 |
| so also | 2 |
| the same thing | 2 |
| the same things | 2 |
| truly | 2 |
| what is right | 2 |
| yet | 2 |
| a thing | 1 |
| after that | 1 |
| afterward | 1 |
| also | 1 |
| and a similar | 1 |
| and as | 1 |
| and likewise | 1 |
| and so it is | 1 |
| and that | 1 |
| and that is how | 1 |
| and that is what | 1 |
| and they did the same | 1 |
| and this went on | 1 |
| and to this | 1 |
| as a result | 1 |
| as he suggested | 1 |
| as i do | 1 |
| as proposed | 1 |
| as they were told | 1 |
| as you do | 1 |
| because of all this | 1 |
| before had such | 1 |
| counting the cost | 1 |
| customary | 1 |
| enough women | 1 |
| especially | 1 |
| for the earth | 1 |
| genuine | 1 |
| is | 1 |
| is true | 1 |
| it correctly | 1 |
| it is just as | 1 |
| it is so | 1 |
| it must be so | 1 |
| it so | 1 |
| just like | 1 |
| just that | 1 |
| not so | 1 |
| precisely as | 1 |
| so are | 1 |
| so i have made | 1 |
| so it is | 1 |
| so this is what | 1 |
| so too | 1 |
| such a scheme | 1 |
| surely | 1 |
| that this | 1 |
| that this be done | 1 |
| that this is what | 1 |
| that way | 1 |
| the case | 1 |
| the farther | 1 |
| the price | 1 |
| the same to them | 1 |
| the same way | 1 |
| the saying | 1 |
| then on | 1 |
| then too | 1 |
| this is how | 1 |
| this is true | 1 |
| this is why | 1 |
| this message | 1 |
| this reason | 1 |
| this was true | 1 |
| this way | 1 |
| thus | 1 |
| to do so | 1 |
| what | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| true | 5 |
| for which cause | 2 |
| in like manner | 2 |
| wherefore | 2 |
| afterwards | 1 |
| and afterward | 1 |
| and it was so | 1 |
| and so | 1 |
| and thus | 1 |
| as broad as | 1 |
| following | 1 |
| for because | 1 |
| for this | 1 |
| for thus | 1 |
| he with whom it is found | 1 |
| howbeit | 1 |
| likewise | 1 |
| likewise and so | 1 |
| me for no such thing ought | 1 |
| neither had i as yet | 1 |
| right | 1 |
| surely | 1 |
| that | 1 |
| the state | 1 |
| them the more | 1 |
| them there were no such | 1 |
| there was not the like | 1 |
| therefore | 1 |
| this | 1 |
| unto him therefore | 1 |
| upon all | 1 |
| us not i pray thee forasmuch as thou knowest | 1 |
| well | 1 |
| ye shall straightway | 1 |
| you | 1 |
Page 12 of 15. 737 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
“Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
Read word by word“Therefore behold,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words they attribute to Me.”
Read word by wordBut if you claim, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ and I specifically told you not to make this claim,
Read word by wordtherefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.
Read word by word“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
Read word by word“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.
Read word by wordTherefore 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.’”
Read word by wordFor 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.’”
Read word by wordthis 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.’”
Read word by wordNevertheless, 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.
Read word by wordThe LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
Read word by wordIs 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.
Read word by wordJust 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.
Read word by wordTherefore 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.
Read word by wordNow 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:
Read word by wordFor 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.
Read word by wordAs 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.”
Read word by wordyou 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.”
Read word by wordbut later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
Read word by wordTherefore 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.
Read word by wordTherefore 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.’”
Read word by wordthis 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.’”
Read word by wordTherefore 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.
Read word by wordThen 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.”
Read word by wordEbed-melech the Cushite cried out to Jeremiah, “Put these worn-out rags and clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,
Read word by word“Take him, look after him, and do not let any harm come to him; do for him whatever he says.”
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordthen 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,
Read word by wordFor 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.’
Read word by wordFor 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.’
Read word by wordTherefore 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.
Read word by wordBecause 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.”
Read word by wordNevertheless, 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.’
Read word by wordI 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.
Read word by wordMoab 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.
Read word by wordTherefore 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.
Read word by wordI know his insolence,” declares the LORD, “but it is futile. His boasting is as empty as his deeds.
Read word by wordTherefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
Read word by wordTherefore 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.
Read word by wordTherefore, 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.
Read word by wordYet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordTherefore 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.
Read word by wordFor her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Read word by wordTherefore 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.
Read word by wordTherefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordTherefore 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.
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