עִם
im (H5973A)
with
AI Word Study
# עִם (im): The Hebrew Preposition "With" The Hebrew preposition עִם (im) is one of the most frequently used words in the biblical text, appearing 981 times throughout the scriptures. Its fundamental meaning is "with," functioning as a relational term that connects entities, people, or concepts. This high frequency of occurrence reflects its essential role in expressing fundamental grammatical relationships in Hebrew, making it indispensable for constructing meaningful sentences and establishing connections between different elements of biblical discourse. The versatility of עִם demonstrates the breadth of relational concepts that Hebrew speakers conveyed through a single preposition. Beyond simple accompaniment, "with" in Hebrew can express association, relationship, instrument, and proximity—allowing a speaker to indicate anything from physical togetherness ("with you") to abstract relationships or conditions. This single word carries considerable semantic weight, serving as a linguistic bridge that connects subjects, objects, and the various circumstances surrounding biblical narratives, commands, and theological statements. The prevalence of עִם in biblical literature underscores its grammatical importance and the Hebraic way of conceptualizing relationships and interactions. Rather than requiring multiple specialized prepositions, Hebrew employs this single term across diverse contexts, suggesting that ancient Hebrew speakers understood these varied relational concepts—companionship, proximity, collaboration, and instrumental means—as fundamentally connected dimensions of the general notion of "
AI synthesis uses only provided lexicon data -- never training knowledge.
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.
The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let’s make him drink wine again tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”
They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”
At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.
Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”
Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you.”
“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”
She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in.”
They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.”
They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.”
After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you,
that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.”
While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.
Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.
In the morning, behold, it was Leah! He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”
He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.
Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.
Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” He lay with her that night.
Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’
Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”
He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’ ”
Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.
He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants.
Showing 1--50 of 857 occurrences