עִם
ʻim · eem
adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6004 (עָמַם);
adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English)
- adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications
- specifically, equally with
- often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: accompanying, against, and, as ([idiom] long as), before, beside, by (reason of), for all, from (among, between), in, like, more than, of, (un-) to, with(-al).
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To see and know of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עִם 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
1052 occurrences · 1052 OT · 0 NT · 160 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- unto2 · 8%
- by2 · 8%
- with1 · 4%
- who hath not left destitute1 · 4%
- not to1 · 4%
- this also from1 · 4%
- from between1 · 4%
- thereof being not with it1 · 4%
- in1 · 4%
- against1 · 4%
- which is beside1 · 4%
- among1 · 4%
- and1 · 4%
- from among1 · 4%
- before1 · 4%
- and withal1 · 4%
- accompanying1 · 4%
- of1 · 4%
- by reason1 · 4%
- yet for all1 · 4%
- as1 · 4%
- thee as long as1 · 4%
- like1 · 4%
- more than1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
- Genesis83
- Exodus49
- Leviticus26
- Numbers20
- Deuteronomy67
- Joshua41
- Judges60
- Ruth15
- 1 Samuel88
- 2 Samuel76
- 1 Kings62
- 2 Kings38
- 1 Chronicles55
- 2 Chronicles115
- Ezra24
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.