The corpus record — Hebrew

כֵֽן

ken

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Distribution

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 771 · 25.13/10k

Senses

1. כֶּן

2. כִּן

‏כִּן ‎many 1K 10) Ps 1272, = such like 1K 1020, = so much Jr 53

3. כן

20 ‎Dt‏ צוּר ‎with‏ ,5ן16 ‎with TT 25 122g 1K‏ ‎1K 1597, with WP 1K 1597, with 7

4. כֵּן

5. כִּי עַל כֵּן

forasmuch as

6. כֵּן

right, veritable, honest

7. כֵּן

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)

8. כן

serves to overthrow or subdue’

9. כן

כון , hence lit. means ‘established, confirmed

Attestations

6 of 771 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (Carta 1987) scan p. 304; entry #7181 Review: Under source audit

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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.