כֵּן
kên · kane
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)
Lexicon
Derivation: 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)
- 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)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [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.
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › the seed, life continuing
The open hand that covers of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כֵּן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
765 occurrences · 765 OT · 0 NT · 86 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- wherefore2 · 7%
- in like manner2 · 7%
- for which cause2 · 7%
- and it was so1 · 4%
- therefore1 · 4%
- unto him, therefore1 · 4%
- that1 · 4%
- and afterward1 · 4%
- this1 · 4%
- following1 · 4%
- we are true1 · 4%
- if ye be true1 · 4%
- and thus1 · 4%
- unto him, we are true1 · 4%
- that ye are true1 · 4%
- but that ye are true1 · 4%
- them, the more1 · 4%
- them there were no such1 · 4%
- well1 · 4%
- likewise1 · 4%
- upon all1 · 4%
- us not, i pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest1 · 4%
- right1 · 4%
- for because1 · 4%
- ye shall straightway1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.