H3651: כֵּן
kên · pronounced kane · “right”
Definition
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 translates it as: [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.
Word origin: from H3559 (כּוּן);
Extended definition
adj
1) right, just, honest, true, veritable
1a) right, just, honest
1b) correct
1c) true, veritable
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3651 is translated
- thus ×205
- therefore ×200
- so ×167
- -fore ×145
- right ×14
- is thus ×8
- is so ×6
- are honest ×5
- was so ×2
- was thus ×2
- such ×2
- are thus ×2
Bible verses with H3651 (kên)
Kên appears in 731 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 1:7
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:15
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:24
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
- Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
- Genesis 4:15
And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
- Genesis 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
- Genesis 6:22
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
- Genesis 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
- Genesis 11:9
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
- Genesis 15:14
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
- Genesis 16:14
Wherefore the well was called Beer–lahai–roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
- Genesis 18:5
And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
- Genesis 19:8
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
- Genesis 19:22
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
- Genesis 20:6
And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
- Genesis 21:31
Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.
- Genesis 23:19
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 25:22
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.
- Genesis 25:26
And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
- Genesis 25:30
And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
- Genesis 26:33
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer–sheba unto this day.
- Genesis 29:26
And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
All 731 references (first 400)
- Genesis 29:28
- Genesis 29:34
- Genesis 29:35
- Genesis 30:6
- Genesis 30:15
- Genesis 31:48
- Genesis 32:20
- Genesis 32:32
- Genesis 33:10
- Genesis 33:17
- Genesis 34:7
- Genesis 38:26
- Genesis 41:13
- Genesis 41:31
- Genesis 42:11
- Genesis 42:19
- Genesis 42:20
- Genesis 42:21
- Genesis 42:25
- Genesis 42:31
- Genesis 42:33
- Genesis 42:34
- Genesis 43:11
- Genesis 44:10
- Genesis 45:15
- Genesis 45:21
- Genesis 47:22
- Genesis 48:18
- Genesis 50:3
- Genesis 50:11
- Genesis 50:12
- Exodus 1:12
- Exodus 3:20
- Exodus 5:8
- Exodus 5:17
- Exodus 6:6
- Exodus 6:9
- Exodus 7:6
- Exodus 7:10
- Exodus 7:11
- Exodus 7:20
- Exodus 7:22
- Exodus 8:7
- Exodus 8:17
- Exodus 8:18
- Exodus 8:24
- Exodus 8:26
- Exodus 10:10
- Exodus 10:11
- Exodus 10:14
- Exodus 10:29
- Exodus 11:1
- Exodus 11:8
- Exodus 12:28
- Exodus 12:50
- Exodus 13:15
- Exodus 14:4
- Exodus 15:23
- Exodus 16:17
- Exodus 16:29
- Exodus 17:6
- Exodus 20:11
- Exodus 22:30
- Exodus 23:11
- Exodus 25:9
- Exodus 25:33
- Exodus 26:4
- Exodus 26:17
- Exodus 26:24
- Exodus 27:8
- Exodus 27:11
- Exodus 34:32
- Exodus 36:11
- Exodus 36:22
- Exodus 36:29
- Exodus 37:19
- Exodus 39:32
- Exodus 39:42
- Exodus 39:43
- Exodus 40:16
- Leviticus 4:20
- Leviticus 8:35
- Leviticus 10:13
- Leviticus 14:36
- Leviticus 16:16
- Leviticus 16:26
- Leviticus 16:28
- Leviticus 17:12
- Leviticus 24:19
- Leviticus 24:20
- Leviticus 27:12
- Leviticus 27:14
- Numbers 1:54
- Numbers 2:17
- Numbers 2:34
- Numbers 4:15
- Numbers 5:4
- Numbers 6:21
- Numbers 8:3
- Numbers 8:4
- Numbers 8:15
- Numbers 8:20
- Numbers 8:22
- Numbers 9:5
- Numbers 9:14
- Numbers 9:16
- Numbers 9:17
- Numbers 10:31
- Numbers 12:7
- Numbers 13:33
- Numbers 14:28
- Numbers 14:43
- Numbers 15:14
- Numbers 15:20
- Numbers 16:11
- Numbers 17:11
- Numbers 18:24
- Numbers 18:28
- Numbers 20:12
- Numbers 21:14
- Numbers 21:27
- Numbers 25:12
- Numbers 27:7
- Numbers 32:23
- Numbers 32:31
- Numbers 36:5
- Numbers 36:10
- Deuteronomy 3:21
- Deuteronomy 4:5
- Deuteronomy 5:15
- Deuteronomy 7:19
- Deuteronomy 8:20
- Deuteronomy 10:9
- Deuteronomy 12:4
- Deuteronomy 12:22
- Deuteronomy 12:30
- Deuteronomy 12:31
- Deuteronomy 15:11
- Deuteronomy 15:15
- Deuteronomy 15:17
- Deuteronomy 18:14
- Deuteronomy 19:7
- Deuteronomy 20:15
- Deuteronomy 21:13
- Deuteronomy 22:3
- Deuteronomy 22:26
- Deuteronomy 24:18
- Deuteronomy 24:22
- Deuteronomy 28:63
- Joshua 1:17
- Joshua 2:4
- Joshua 2:21
- Joshua 4:8
- Joshua 5:15
- Joshua 7:26
- Joshua 8:34
- Joshua 9:26
- Joshua 10:1
- Joshua 10:23
- Joshua 10:26
- Joshua 10:39
- Joshua 11:15
- Joshua 14:5
- Joshua 14:14
- Joshua 21:42
- Joshua 23:15
- Judges 1:7
- Judges 2:17
- Judges 5:15
- Judges 5:31
- Judges 6:20
- Judges 6:22
- Judges 6:38
- Judges 6:40
- Judges 7:17
- Judges 8:7
- Judges 10:13
- Judges 11:8
- Judges 11:10
- Judges 12:6
- Judges 14:10
- Judges 15:11
- Judges 15:19
- Judges 16:4
- Judges 18:12
- Judges 21:14
- Judges 21:23
- 1 Samuel 1:7
- 1 Samuel 2:30
- 1 Samuel 3:14
- 1 Samuel 5:5
- 1 Samuel 5:7
- 1 Samuel 6:10
- 1 Samuel 8:8
- 1 Samuel 9:13
- 1 Samuel 10:5
- 1 Samuel 10:12
- 1 Samuel 15:33
- 1 Samuel 19:24
- 1 Samuel 20:29
- 1 Samuel 23:17
- 1 Samuel 23:28
- 1 Samuel 24:5
- 1 Samuel 24:8
- 1 Samuel 25:25
- 1 Samuel 26:24
- 1 Samuel 27:6
- 1 Samuel 28:2
- 1 Samuel 28:18
- 1 Samuel 30:23
- 2 Samuel 2:1
- 2 Samuel 3:9
- 2 Samuel 3:28
- 2 Samuel 5:8
- 2 Samuel 5:20
- 2 Samuel 5:25
- 2 Samuel 7:17
- 2 Samuel 7:22
- 2 Samuel 7:27
- 2 Samuel 8:1
- 2 Samuel 9:11
- 2 Samuel 10:1
- 2 Samuel 12:31
- 2 Samuel 13:1
- 2 Samuel 13:12
- 2 Samuel 13:18
- 2 Samuel 13:35
- 2 Samuel 14:17
- 2 Samuel 15:1
- 2 Samuel 16:10
- 2 Samuel 16:19
- 2 Samuel 16:23
- 2 Samuel 18:14
- 2 Samuel 20:18
- 2 Samuel 20:21
- 2 Samuel 21:14
- 2 Samuel 21:18
- 2 Samuel 22:50
- 2 Samuel 23:5
- 2 Samuel 24:10
- 1 Kings 1:30
- 1 Kings 1:36
- 1 Kings 1:37
- 1 Kings 2:7
- 1 Kings 2:38
- 1 Kings 6:26
- 1 Kings 6:33
- 1 Kings 7:18
- 1 Kings 9:9
- 1 Kings 10:12
- 1 Kings 10:20
- 1 Kings 10:29
- 1 Kings 11:8
- 1 Kings 12:32
- 1 Kings 13:9
- 1 Kings 14:4
- 1 Kings 14:10
- 1 Kings 20:23
- 1 Kings 20:25
- 1 Kings 20:40
- 1 Kings 22:8
- 1 Kings 22:12
- 1 Kings 22:19
- 1 Kings 22:22
- 2 Kings 1:4
- 2 Kings 1:6
- 2 Kings 1:16
- 2 Kings 2:10
- 2 Kings 6:24
- 2 Kings 7:9
- 2 Kings 7:20
- 2 Kings 15:12
- 2 Kings 16:11
- 2 Kings 17:9
- 2 Kings 18:21
- 2 Kings 19:32
- 2 Kings 21:12
- 2 Kings 22:20
- 1 Chronicles 11:7
- 1 Chronicles 13:4
- 1 Chronicles 14:11
- 1 Chronicles 17:15
- 1 Chronicles 17:25
- 1 Chronicles 18:1
- 1 Chronicles 19:1
- 1 Chronicles 20:3
- 1 Chronicles 23:30
- 2 Chronicles 1:12
- 2 Chronicles 1:17
- 2 Chronicles 7:22
- 2 Chronicles 8:14
- 2 Chronicles 9:19
- 2 Chronicles 16:7
- 2 Chronicles 18:7
- 2 Chronicles 18:11
- 2 Chronicles 18:18
- 2 Chronicles 18:21
- 2 Chronicles 20:26
- 2 Chronicles 32:17
- 2 Chronicles 32:23
- 2 Chronicles 32:31
- 2 Chronicles 33:14
- 2 Chronicles 35:12
- Ezra 10:12
- Ezra 10:16
- Nehemiah 2:16
- Nehemiah 5:12
- Nehemiah 5:15
- Nehemiah 6:6
- Nehemiah 6:13
- Nehemiah 8:17
- Esther 1:8
- Esther 1:13
- Esther 2:4
- Esther 2:12
- Esther 3:2
- Esther 4:16
- Esther 6:10
- Esther 7:5
- Esther 9:14
- Esther 9:19
- Esther 9:26
- Job 3:1
- Job 5:27
- Job 6:3
- Job 7:3
- Job 7:9
- Job 8:13
- Job 9:2
- Job 9:22
- Job 9:35
- Job 17:4
- Job 20:2
- Job 20:21
- Job 22:10
- Job 23:15
- Job 32:6
- Job 32:10
- Job 34:10
- Job 34:25
- Job 34:27
- Job 37:24
- Job 42:3
- Job 42:6
- Psalms 1:4
- Psalms 1:5
- Psalms 16:9
- Psalms 18:49
- Psalms 25:8
- Psalms 42:1
- Psalms 42:6
- Psalms 45:2
- Psalms 45:7
- Psalms 45:17
- Psalms 46:2
- Psalms 48:5
- Psalms 48:8
- Psalms 48:10
- Psalms 61:8
- Psalms 63:2
- Psalms 63:4
- Psalms 65:9
- Psalms 73:6
- Psalms 73:10
- Psalms 78:21
- Psalms 83:15
- Psalms 90:12
- Psalms 103:15
- Psalms 110:7
- Psalms 119:104
- Psalms 119:119
- Psalms 119:127
- Psalms 119:128
- Psalms 119:129
- Psalms 123:2