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# לָכֵן

Biblical Hebrew

**therefore** — used 200 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** v. כֵּן.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (1 candidates); OSHB: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: therefore (195);  (5).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 16:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.35/#tree)

לָכֵ֣ן זוֹנָ֔ה שִׁמְעִ֖י דְּבַר־יְהוָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* therefore O.prostitute hear the.word of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD!

[Ezekiel 34:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.34.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.34.7/#tree)

לָכֵ֣ן רֹעִ֔ים שִׁמְע֖וּ אֶת־דְּבַ֥ר יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* therefore O.shepherds hear (et) the.word of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b8_5db_5b5_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b8_5db_5b5_5df/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).