# H518 אִם

אִם (ʼim), Strong’s H518: 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…

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*ʼim* — 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…

Occurs 1070 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 4:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=7) — 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…
- [Genesis 13:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=9) — 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…
- [Genesis 13:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=16) — 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…
- [Genesis 14:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=23) — that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram…
- [Genesis 15:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=4) — 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…
- [Genesis 15:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=5) — The LORD brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.”…
- [Genesis 17:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=17) — Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred…
- [Genesis 18:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=3) — and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.
- [Genesis 18:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=21) — 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.”
- [Genesis 18:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=26) — The LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”