אִם (im) means “if” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
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אִם · im · if
: if/whether_or/though 1) if 1a) conditional clauses 1a1) of possible situations 1a2) of impossible situations 1b) oath contexts 1b1) no, not 1c) if...if, whether...or, whether...or...or 1d) when, whenever 1e) since 1f) interrogative particle 1g) but rather
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[כִּי] אם · ki im · if: except
1) except if 1a) but if
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אִם · im · if: surely no
: surely_no 1) if 1a) conditional clauses 1a1) of possible situations 1a2) of impossible situations 1b) oath contexts 1b1) no, not 1c) if...if, whether...or, whether...or...or 1d) when, whenever 1e) since 1f) interrogative particle 1g) but rather
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אִם · im · if: surely yes
: surely_yes 1) if 1a) conditional clauses 1a1) of possible situations 1a2) of impossible situations 1b) oath contexts 1b1) no, not 1c) if...if, whether...or, whether...or...or 1d) when, whenever 1e) since 1f) interrogative particle 1g) but rather
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אִם · im · if: until
: until/except 1) if 1a) conditional clauses 1a1) of possible situations 1a2) of impossible situations 1b) oath contexts 1b1) no, not 1c) if...if, whether...or, whether...or...or 1d) when, whenever 1e) since 1f) interrogative particle 1g) but rather
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a primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
KJV glosses: (and, can-, doubtless, if, that) (not), [phrase] but, either, [phrase] except, [phrase] more(-over if, than), neither, nevertheless, nor, oh that, or, [phrase] save (only, -ing), seeing, since, sith, [phrase] surely (no more, none, not), though, [phrase] of a truth, [phrase] unless, [phrase] verily, when, whereas, whether, while, [phrase] yet.
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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 |
|---|---|
| if | 372 |
| but if | 95 |
| or | 65 |
| and if | 34 |
| when | 21 |
| though | 18 |
| if however | 17 |
| whether | 17 |
| i will not | 13 |
| surely | 13 |
| but | 10 |
| even if | 9 |
| or if | 9 |
| unless | 7 |
| not | 6 |
| since | 5 |
| can | 4 |
| no | 4 |
| now if | 4 |
| that you will not | 4 |
| although | 3 |
| and | 3 |
| and though | 3 |
| if only | 3 |
| if you | 3 |
| only | 3 |
| only if | 3 |
| that | 3 |
| and he will surely | 2 |
| and if the person is | 2 |
| and when | 2 |
| and whether | 2 |
| as long as | 2 |
| but only | 2 |
| but when | 2 |
| certainly | 2 |
| do not | 2 |
| has | 2 |
| i will never | 2 |
| never | 2 |
| not one | 2 |
| so if | 2 |
| they could not | 2 |
| to determine whether | 2 |
| whether or | 2 |
| will not | 2 |
| about | 1 |
| after | 1 |
| also if | 1 |
| and i will surely | 1 |
| and such | 1 |
| as | 1 |
| as if | 1 |
| as surely | 1 |
| as surely as | 1 |
| at least | 1 |
| because | 1 |
| between | 1 |
| but cannot match | 1 |
| but i will surely | 1 |
| but if anyone | 1 |
| but if you | 1 |
| but in fact | 1 |
| condition | 1 |
| david will not | 1 |
| does | 1 |
| exactly | 1 |
| except for | 1 |
| he who | 1 |
| i do not | 1 |
| i take no | 1 |
| i would not | 1 |
| if he is alone | 1 |
| if he vows | 1 |
| if however the owner | 1 |
| if i let | 1 |
| if instead | 1 |
| if perhaps | 1 |
| if they can | 1 |
| if this | 1 |
| if we are strong | 1 |
| if what was stolen | 1 |
| if you refuse | 1 |
| indeed | 1 |
| is her | 1 |
| is there | 1 |
| is there any | 1 |
| likewise if | 1 |
| my visitor | 1 |
| neither | 1 |
| nevertheless if | 1 |
| no one | 1 |
| nor | 1 |
| nor does | 1 |
| nor will | 1 |
| now if the person is | 1 |
| o | 1 |
| of yours will never | 1 |
| on | 1 |
| provided that | 1 |
| see if | 1 |
| shall never | 1 |
| should | 1 |
| so whenever | 1 |
| surely as | 1 |
| surely i will | 1 |
| surely none | 1 |
| surely then | 1 |
| that even if | 1 |
| that never | 1 |
| that surely | 1 |
| then even if | 1 |
| they are | 1 |
| they shall never | 1 |
| they will say | 1 |
| to | 1 |
| until | 1 |
| vvv | 1 |
| was | 1 |
| whenever | 1 |
| where we will surely | 1 |
| whether it is | 1 |
| whether the | 1 |
| yet if | 1 |
| you | 1 |
| you must not | 1 |
| you shall not | 1 |
| you unless | 1 |
| you will no | 1 |
| you will surely | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| or | 3 |
| but | 2 |
| if | 2 |
| verily | 2 |
| and if | 1 |
| and that i will not | 1 |
| and thou shalt not only while yet | 1 |
| doubtless ye shall not | 1 |
| except | 1 |
| he had save | 1 |
| he shall not | 1 |
| him if | 1 |
| him not | 1 |
| i cannot | 1 |
| i will surely | 1 |
| me nor | 1 |
| moreover if | 1 |
| no more of her than | 1 |
| nor | 1 |
| oh that | 1 |
| or even | 1 |
| save only | 1 |
| seeing | 1 |
| shall | 1 |
| should not be his and it came to pass when | 1 |
| so that | 1 |
| surely | 1 |
| surely i will | 1 |
| surely they shall not | 1 |
| that i will not | 1 |
| that thou wilt not | 1 |
| thee sith | 1 |
| there shall | 1 |
| thereof saving | 1 |
| unless | 1 |
| until | 1 |
| unto him of a truth | 1 |
| unto them though | 1 |
| whereas | 1 |
Page 8 of 19. 928 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
“Go and lie down,” he said to Samuel, “and if He calls you, say, ‘Speak, LORD, for Your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
Read word by wordTherefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, ‘The iniquity of Eli’s house shall never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.’”
Read word by word“What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.”
Read word by wordThey replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”
Read word by wordbut keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
Read word by wordThen Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
Read word by wordNevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.
Read word by word“Hold off for seven days,” replied the elders of Jabesh, “and let us send messengers throughout Israel. If there is no one to save us, we will surrender to you.”
Read word by wordIf you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and if you do not rebel against the command of the LORD, and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the LORD your God, then all will be well.
Read word by wordBut if you disobey the LORD and rebel against His command, then the hand of the LORD will be against you as it was against your fathers.
Read word by wordBut if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
Read word by wordIf they say, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stay where we are and will not go up to them.
Read word by wordBut if they say, ‘Come on up,’ then we will go up, because this will be our sign that the LORD has delivered them into our hands.”
Read word by wordAs surely as the LORD who saves Israel lives, even if it is my son Jonathan, he must die!” But not one of the troops said a word.
Read word by wordBut the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die—he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for with God’s help he has accomplished this today.” So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.
Read word by wordAnd Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, have you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel
Read word by wordIf he is able to fight me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and work for us.”
Read word by wordAs Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
Read word by wordSaul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, David will not be put to death.”
Read word by wordThen Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
Read word by wordIf your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
Read word by wordIf he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
Read word by wordTherefore show kindness to your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?”
Read word by word“Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”
Read word by wordAnd as long as I live, treat me with the LORD’s loving devotion, that I may not die,
Read word by wordThen I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you, and there is no danger.
Read word by wordBut if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.
Read word by wordsaying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
Read word by word“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.5
David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the bodies of the young men are holy even on common missions. How much more so today!”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.6
So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.7
The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.10
Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”
Read word by wordSo he said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD’s anointed. May I never lift my hand against him, since he is the LORD’s anointed.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.7
So now, swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s house.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.22
May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one male belonging to Nabal survive until morning.”
Read word by wordOtherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”
Read word by wordDavid added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
Read word by wordNow please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
Read word by wordThen David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
Read word by wordThen Saul swore to her by the LORD: “As surely as the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this.”
Read word by word“Will you lead me to these raiders?” David asked. And the man replied, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hand of my master, and I will lead you to them.”
Read word by wordAnd David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
Read word by wordbut all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”
Read word by word“Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.”
Read word by wordThen all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”
Read word by wordNow the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.”
Read word by word“If the Arameans are too strong for me,” said Joab, “then you will come to my rescue. And if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to your rescue.
Read word by wordUriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
Read word by wordif the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?
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