Strong's #518: 'im (pronounced eem)
a primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrog., whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not:--(and, can-, doubtless, if, that) (not), + but, either, + except, + more(-over if, than), neither, nevertheless, nor, oh that, or, + save (only, -ing), seeing, since, sith, + surely (no more, none, not), though, + of a truth, + unless, + verily, when, whereas, whether, while, + yet.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'im
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
Part of Speech: conditional particle
Relation: a primitive particle
Usage:
This word is used 999 times:
1 Samuel 14:39: "which saveth Israel, though though it be in Jonathan my son,"
1 Samuel 14:45: "God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall"
1 Samuel 15:17: "said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not"
1 Samuel 17:9: " If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if"
1 Samuel 17:9: "me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be"
1 Samuel 17:55: "As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell."
1 Samuel 19:6: "swore, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain."
1 Samuel 19:11: "wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life"
1 Samuel 20:6: " If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked"
1 Samuel 20:7: " If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth,"
1 Samuel 20:7: "It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that"
1 Samuel 20:8: "into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself;"
1 Samuel 20:9: "said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil"
1 Samuel 20:14: " only while yet I live show me the kindness of the LORD,"
1 Samuel 20:21: "find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold,"
1 Samuel 20:22: " But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond"
1 Samuel 20:29: "he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favor in thine eyes, let me get away,"
1 Samuel 21:4: "bread under mine hand, but but there is hallowed"
1 Samuel 21:4: "but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves"
1 Samuel 21:5: "the priest, and said unto him, Of unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three"
1 Samuel 21:6: "no bread there but but the shewbread, that was taken"
1 Samuel 21:9: "in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no"
1 Samuel 23:23: "the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land,"
1 Samuel 24:6: "unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this"
1 Samuel 24:21: "now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after"
1 Samuel 24:21: "my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house."
1 Samuel 25:22: "God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that"
1 Samuel 25:34: "thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal"
1 Samuel 26:10: "said furthermore, furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite"
1 Samuel 26:19: "the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering:"
1 Samuel 26:19: "have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they"
1 Samuel 27:5: "said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes,"
1 Samuel 28:10: "saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing."
1 Samuel 30:15: "And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands"
1 Samuel 30:15: "unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down"
1 Samuel 30:17: "of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save of them, save four hundred"
1 Samuel 30:22: "us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered, save save"
2 Samuel 3:13: "Thou shalt not see my face, except except thou first bring"
2 Samuel 3:35: "God to me, and more also, if if I taste bread, or"
2 Samuel 5:6: "which spoke unto David, saying, Except Except thou take away the blind and the lame,"
2 Samuel 10:11: " If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if"
2 Samuel 10:11: "for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for"
2 Samuel 11:20: " And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached"
2 Samuel 12:3: "man had nothing, save save one little ewe lamb,"
2 Samuel 12:8: "the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such"
2 Samuel 13:33: "the king's sons are dead: for for Amnon only is dead."
2 Samuel 14:11: "And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall"
2 Samuel 14:19: "liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from aught"
2 Samuel 14:32: "still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity"
2 Samuel 15:8: "at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve"
