What is the Strong's number for Im?

The Strong's number for Im (עִם) is H5973. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Im (Strong’s H5973): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Im mean?

Im (עִם, Strong's H5973) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English). The King James Bible translates it as accompanying, against, and, as (× long as), before, beside, by (reason of), for all, from (among, between), in, like, more than, of, (un-) to, with(-al).

Im (עִם) is the Hebrew word numbered H5973 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English). In the King James Bible it is translated accompanying, against, and, before, beside.

עִם

ʻim · Hebrew

Strong’s H5973 · eem

Original wordעִם
Transliterationʻim
Pronunciationeem
Part of speechpreposition (prep)
Strong’s numberH5973
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English)

Derivation. from H6004;

How the King James Bible translates it

accompanying, against, and, as (× long as), before, beside, by (reason of), for all, from (among, between), in, like, more than, of, (un-) to, with(-al). (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Im appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Im (H5973) stands behind 25 English renderings in 25 verses across 13 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Genesis (8), Deuteronomy (2), Joshua (2).

How the King James Bible renders Im, by count

among2 of 25 (8 percent)
as2 of 25 (8 percent)
by2 of 25 (8 percent)
unto2 of 25 (8 percent)
accompanying1 of 25 (4 percent)
against1 of 25 (4 percent)

Three places to read Im

Genesis 18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Exodus 22:14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
1 Samuel 16:12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Im in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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