Lexicon
כֵּן
ken
H3651A
H:Adv Hebrew

right

22
Occurrences
11
Books
Hebrew
Language

ken occurs in clauses assessing whether speech, conduct, or a stated course is right.

Across the supplied verses, ken occurs in assessments of what is said or done: statements are judged correct, people claim honesty, and conduct is described as not right; the supplied morphology varies between particle, adjective, and adverb tags.

Senses in use

  1. Assessment within statements and descriptions · dominant

    In Numbers 27:7 and Exodus 10:29, tokens tagged Particle · Demonstrative occur in spoken responses that the APB renders as speaking “correctly” or “rightly.” In Genesis 42:11 and Genesis 42:33, adjective-tagged plural forms occur in the brothers' claim that they are “honest men,” while Jeremiah 8:6 places an adjective-tagged singular form in the report that the people “do not speak rightly.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents these clauses with “correctly,” “rightly,” “honest,” and “not right.” Because it is a whole-verse translation, these renderings indicate the clauses' assessments rather than a fixed English equivalent for each token.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture