Which of the following words is used to restrict the records that are returned from a SELECT query based on supplied criteria for the values in the records?

`LIMIT` restricts the number of rows returned by the query, usually for pagination, but it does not filter based on criteria applied to column values.

`FROM` specifies the table or tables from which to retrieve data; it defines the source of the data, not the filtering criteria.

The `WHERE` clause is fundamental in SQL `SELECT` queries for applying conditions to rows, causing the database to return only the rows that match the criteria specified after `WHERE`. This directly restricts the result set based on values within the records.

`IF` is a conditional function or statement in some SQL dialects, but it is not the standard clause used to filter rows in a `SELECT` statement based on record values; `WHERE` is used for that purpose.