H518: אִם
ʼim · pronounced eem · “if”
Definition
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
KJV translates it as: (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.
Word origin: a primitive particle;
Extended definition
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
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H518 is translated
- if ×756
- except ×149
- or? ×101
- or ×20
- though ×18
- whether ×16
- if? ×9
- that if ×1
Bible verses with H518 (ʼim)
ʼim appears in 930 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 4:7
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
- Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
- Genesis 13:16
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
- Genesis 14:23
That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
- Genesis 15:4
And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
- Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
- Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
- Genesis 18:3
And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
- Genesis 18:21
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
- Genesis 18:26
And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
- Genesis 18:28
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
- Genesis 18:30
And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
- Genesis 20:7
Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
- Genesis 21:23
Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
- Genesis 23:8
And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
- Genesis 23:13
And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
- Genesis 24:8
And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.
- Genesis 24:19
And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
- Genesis 24:21
And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.
- Genesis 24:33
And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
- Genesis 24:38
But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
- Genesis 24:41
Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
- Genesis 24:42
And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
- Genesis 24:49
And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
- 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.
All 930 references (first 400)
- Genesis 26:29
- Genesis 27:21
- Genesis 27:46
- Genesis 28:15
- Genesis 28:17
- Genesis 28:20
- Genesis 30:1
- Genesis 30:27
- Genesis 30:31
- Genesis 31:8
- Genesis 31:50
- Genesis 31:52
- Genesis 32:8
- Genesis 32:26
- Genesis 32:28
- Genesis 33:10
- Genesis 34:15
- Genesis 34:17
- Genesis 35:10
- Genesis 37:8
- Genesis 37:32
- Genesis 38:9
- Genesis 38:17
- Genesis 39:6
- Genesis 39:9
- Genesis 40:14
- Genesis 42:15
- Genesis 42:16
- Genesis 42:19
- Genesis 42:37
- Genesis 43:4
- Genesis 43:5
- Genesis 43:9
- Genesis 43:11
- Genesis 44:23
- Genesis 44:26
- Genesis 44:32
- Genesis 47:6
- Genesis 47:16
- Genesis 47:18
- Genesis 47:29
- Genesis 50:4
- Exodus 1:16
- Exodus 4:8
- Exodus 4:9
- Exodus 8:2
- Exodus 8:21
- Exodus 9:2
- Exodus 10:4
- Exodus 12:4
- Exodus 12:9
- Exodus 13:13
- Exodus 15:26
- Exodus 16:4
- Exodus 17:7
- Exodus 18:23
- Exodus 19:5
- Exodus 19:13
- Exodus 20:25
- Exodus 21:3
- Exodus 21:4
- Exodus 21:5
- Exodus 21:8
- Exodus 21:9
- Exodus 21:10
- Exodus 21:11
- Exodus 21:19
- Exodus 21:21
- Exodus 21:23
- Exodus 21:27
- Exodus 21:29
- Exodus 21:30
- Exodus 21:32
- Exodus 22:2
- Exodus 22:3
- Exodus 22:4
- Exodus 22:7
- Exodus 22:8
- Exodus 22:11
- Exodus 22:12
- Exodus 22:13
- Exodus 22:15
- Exodus 22:17
- Exodus 22:23
- Exodus 22:25
- Exodus 22:26
- Exodus 23:22
- Exodus 29:34
- Exodus 32:32
- Exodus 33:13
- Exodus 33:15
- Exodus 34:9
- Exodus 34:20
- Exodus 40:37
- Leviticus 1:3
- Leviticus 1:10
- Leviticus 1:14
- Leviticus 2:5
- Leviticus 2:7
- Leviticus 2:14
- Leviticus 3:1
- Leviticus 3:6
- Leviticus 3:7
- Leviticus 3:12
- Leviticus 4:3
- Leviticus 4:13
- Leviticus 4:27
- Leviticus 4:32
- Leviticus 5:1
- Leviticus 5:7
- Leviticus 5:11
- Leviticus 5:17
- Leviticus 6:28
- Leviticus 7:12
- Leviticus 7:16
- Leviticus 7:18
- Leviticus 12:5
- Leviticus 12:8
- Leviticus 13:4
- Leviticus 13:7
- Leviticus 13:12
- Leviticus 13:21
- Leviticus 13:22
- Leviticus 13:23
- Leviticus 13:26
- Leviticus 13:27
- Leviticus 13:28
- Leviticus 13:35
- Leviticus 13:37
- Leviticus 13:41
- Leviticus 13:53
- Leviticus 13:56
- Leviticus 13:57
- Leviticus 14:21
- Leviticus 14:43
- Leviticus 14:48
- Leviticus 15:23
- Leviticus 15:24
- Leviticus 15:28
- Leviticus 17:16
- Leviticus 19:7
- Leviticus 20:4
- Leviticus 21:2
- Leviticus 21:14
- Leviticus 22:6
- Leviticus 25:28
- Leviticus 25:30
- Leviticus 25:51
- Leviticus 25:52
- Leviticus 25:54
- Leviticus 26:3
- Leviticus 26:14
- Leviticus 26:15
- Leviticus 26:18
- Leviticus 26:21
- Leviticus 26:23
- Leviticus 26:27
- Leviticus 27:4
- Leviticus 27:5
- Leviticus 27:6
- Leviticus 27:7
- Leviticus 27:8
- Leviticus 27:9
- Leviticus 27:10
- Leviticus 27:11
- Leviticus 27:13
- Leviticus 27:15
- Leviticus 27:16
- Leviticus 27:17
- Leviticus 27:18
- Leviticus 27:19
- Leviticus 27:20
- Leviticus 27:22
- Leviticus 27:26
- Leviticus 27:27
- Leviticus 27:31
- Leviticus 27:33
- Numbers 5:8
- Numbers 5:19
- Numbers 5:27
- Numbers 5:28
- Numbers 10:4
- Numbers 10:30
- Numbers 11:12
- Numbers 11:15
- Numbers 11:22
- Numbers 11:23
- Numbers 12:6
- Numbers 13:18
- Numbers 13:19
- Numbers 13:20
- Numbers 14:8
- Numbers 14:23
- Numbers 14:28
- Numbers 14:30
- Numbers 14:35
- Numbers 15:24
- Numbers 15:27
- Numbers 16:29
- Numbers 16:30
- Numbers 17:13
- Numbers 19:12
- Numbers 20:19
- Numbers 21:2
- Numbers 21:9
- Numbers 22:18
- Numbers 22:20
- Numbers 22:34
- Numbers 24:13
- Numbers 24:22
- Numbers 26:33
- Numbers 26:65
- Numbers 27:9
- Numbers 27:10
- Numbers 27:11
- Numbers 30:5
- Numbers 30:6
- Numbers 30:8
- Numbers 30:10
- Numbers 30:12
- Numbers 30:14
- Numbers 30:15
- Numbers 32:5
- Numbers 32:11
- Numbers 32:17
- Numbers 32:20
- Numbers 32:23
- Numbers 32:29
- Numbers 32:30
- Numbers 33:55
- Numbers 35:16
- Numbers 35:17
- Numbers 35:20
- Numbers 35:22
- Numbers 35:26
- Numbers 35:33
- Numbers 36:4
- Deuteronomy 1:35
- Deuteronomy 5:25
- Deuteronomy 7:5
- Deuteronomy 8:2
- Deuteronomy 8:19
- Deuteronomy 10:12
- Deuteronomy 11:13
- Deuteronomy 11:22
- Deuteronomy 11:28
- Deuteronomy 12:5
- Deuteronomy 12:14
- Deuteronomy 12:18
- Deuteronomy 15:5
- Deuteronomy 16:6
- Deuteronomy 18:3
- Deuteronomy 19:8
- Deuteronomy 20:11
- Deuteronomy 20:12
- Deuteronomy 21:14
- Deuteronomy 22:2
- Deuteronomy 22:20
- Deuteronomy 22:25
- Deuteronomy 24:1
- Deuteronomy 24:12
- Deuteronomy 25:2
- Deuteronomy 25:7
- Deuteronomy 28:1
- Deuteronomy 28:15
- Deuteronomy 28:58
- Deuteronomy 30:4
- Deuteronomy 30:16
- Deuteronomy 30:17
- Deuteronomy 32:30
- Deuteronomy 32:41
- Joshua 2:14
- Joshua 2:19
- Joshua 2:20
- Joshua 5:13
- Joshua 7:12
- Joshua 14:4
- Joshua 14:9
- Joshua 17:3
- Joshua 17:15
- Joshua 22:19
- Joshua 22:22
- Joshua 22:23
- Joshua 22:24
- Joshua 23:8
- Joshua 23:12
- Joshua 24:15
- Judges 2:22
- Judges 4:8
- Judges 4:20
- Judges 5:8
- Judges 6:3
- Judges 6:17
- Judges 6:31
- Judges 6:36
- Judges 6:37
- Judges 7:10
- Judges 7:14
- Judges 9:2
- Judges 9:15
- Judges 9:16
- Judges 9:19
- Judges 9:20
- Judges 11:9
- Judges 11:10
- Judges 11:25
- Judges 11:30
- Judges 13:16
- Judges 14:12
- Judges 14:13
- Judges 15:7
- Judges 16:7
- Judges 16:11
- Judges 16:13
- Judges 16:17
- Judges 20:28
- Judges 21:21
- Ruth 2:21
- Ruth 3:10
- Ruth 3:13
- Ruth 3:18
- Ruth 4:4
- 1 Samuel 1:11
- 1 Samuel 2:15
- 1 Samuel 2:16
- 1 Samuel 2:25
- 1 Samuel 3:9
- 1 Samuel 3:14
- 1 Samuel 3:17
- 1 Samuel 6:3
- 1 Samuel 6:9
- 1 Samuel 7:3
- 1 Samuel 8:19
- 1 Samuel 11:3
- 1 Samuel 12:14
- 1 Samuel 12:15
- 1 Samuel 12:25
- 1 Samuel 14:9
- 1 Samuel 14:10
- 1 Samuel 14:39
- 1 Samuel 14:41
- 1 Samuel 14:45
- 1 Samuel 15:17
- 1 Samuel 17:9
- 1 Samuel 17:55
- 1 Samuel 19:6
- 1 Samuel 19:11
- 1 Samuel 20:6
- 1 Samuel 20:7
- 1 Samuel 20:8
- 1 Samuel 20:9
- 1 Samuel 20:14
- 1 Samuel 20:21
- 1 Samuel 20:22
- 1 Samuel 20:29
- 1 Samuel 21:4
- 1 Samuel 21:5
- 1 Samuel 21:6
- 1 Samuel 21:9
- 1 Samuel 23:23
- 1 Samuel 24:6
- 1 Samuel 24:21
- 1 Samuel 25:22
- 1 Samuel 25:34
- 1 Samuel 26:10
- 1 Samuel 26:19
- 1 Samuel 27:5
- 1 Samuel 28:10
- 1 Samuel 30:15
- 1 Samuel 30:17
- 1 Samuel 30:22
- 2 Samuel 3:13
- 2 Samuel 3:35
- 2 Samuel 5:6
- 2 Samuel 10:11