Thus
כֵּןStrong’s H3652ken
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ken is the Aramaic word usually translated “as follows”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.”
Meaning
- Thus, so, as follows
How it's translated
- and as follows 7
- as follows 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 6
- Ezra 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:25In contextThen Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.
- Daniel 4:14In contextHe cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
- Daniel 6:6In contextThen these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
- Daniel 7:5In contextAnd behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
- Daniel 7:23In contextThus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
- Ezra 5:3At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai, and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?
Aramaic dictionary
כֵּן ken · thus
thus, so, as follows Aramaic of ken (כֵּן "so" H3651C)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thus” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THUS, adverb
In this or that manner; on this wise; as, thus saith the Lord; the Pharisee prayed thus
- “THUS did Noah, according to all that God commanded him” Genesis 6:22
- To this degree or extent; as thus wise; thus peaceable.
- In the phrase, thus much, it seems to be an adjective, equivalent to this much.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.