{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H518",
  "lemma": "אִם",
  "transliteration": "ʼim",
  "definition": "used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not",
  "kjv": "(and, can-, doubtless, if, that) (not), [phrase] but, either, [phrase] except…",
  "occurrences": 1070,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "אִם conj.",
    "1. hypoth. part. if",
    "2. Interrog. part.",
    "כִּי אם־",
    "כִּי אם־",
    "1. each part. retaining its independent force, and relating to a different clause:",
    "a. that if",
    "b. for if",
    "2. (About 140 t.) the two particles being closely conjoined, and relating to the same clause—",
    "a. limiting the prec. clause, except",
    "b. the if being neglected, and treated as pleonastic, so that the clause is no longer a limitation of the preceding clause but a contradiction of it: but rather, but",
    "c. after an oath, surely"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 4:7",
      "text": "If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 13:9",
      "text": "Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 13:16",
      "text": "I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:23",
      "text": "that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 15:4",
      "text": "Behold, the LORD’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 15:5",
      "text": "The LORD brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.”…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 17:17",
      "text": "Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:3",
      "text": "and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:21",
      "text": "I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:26",
      "text": "The LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=26"
    }
  ],
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