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כִּי

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hebrewOld TestamentConjunction4,486 occurrences39 books3,910 verses

Definition

a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
Traditional renderings: and, (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), but, certainly, doubtless, else, even, except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, (al-) though, till, truly, until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders כִּי:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

4,486 total
  1. Leviticus 15:25כִּֽי־ · When; כִֽי־ · if
    When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days at a time other than her menstrual period, or if it continues beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, just as she is during the days of her menstruation.
  2. Leviticus 16:2כִּ֚י · because
    And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
  3. Leviticus 16:30כִּֽי־ · because
    …because on this day atonement will be made for you to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
  4. Leviticus 17:11כִּ֣י · For; כִּֽי־ · for
    For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
  5. Leviticus 17:14כִּֽי־ · For; כִּ֣י · because
    For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.’
  6. Leviticus 18:10כִּ֥י · for
    You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family.
  7. Leviticus 18:13כִּֽי־ · for
    You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.
  8. Leviticus 18:24כִּ֤י · for
    Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
  9. Leviticus 18:27כִּ֚י · For
    For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.
  10. Leviticus 18:29כִּ֚י · Therefore
    Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.
  11. Leviticus 19:2כִּ֣י · because
    “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
  12. Leviticus 19:5וְכִ֧י · When
    When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.
  13. Leviticus 19:8כִּֽי־ · for
    Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.
  14. Leviticus 19:20כִּֽי־ · If; כִּי־ · because
    If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
  15. Leviticus 19:23וְכִי־ · When
    When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.
  16. Leviticus 19:33וְכִֽי־ · When
    When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
  17. Leviticus 19:34כִּֽי־ · for
    You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
  18. Leviticus 20:3כִּ֤י · because
    And I will set My face against that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name.
  19. Leviticus 20:7כִּ֛י · because
    Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.
  20. Leviticus 20:9כִּֽי־ · If
    If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.
  21. Leviticus 20:19כִּ֧י · for
    You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.
  22. Leviticus 20:23כִּ֤י · Because
    You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
  23. Leviticus 20:26כִּ֥י · because
    You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.
  24. Leviticus 20:27כִּֽי־
    A man or a woman who is a medium or spiritist must surely be put to death. They shall be stoned; their blood is upon them.’”
  25. Leviticus 21:2כִּ֚י · except
    …except for his immediate family—his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,
  26. Leviticus 21:6כִּי֩ · Because
    They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the LORD the food offerings, the food of their God, they must be holy.
  27. Leviticus 21:7כִּֽי־ · for
    A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
  28. Leviticus 21:8כִּֽי־ · since; כִּ֣י · because
    You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy—I who set you apart.
  29. Leviticus 21:9כִּ֥י · If
    If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.
  30. Leviticus 21:12כִּ֡י · for
    He must not leave or desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the LORD.
  31. Leviticus 21:14כִּ֛י
    He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,
  32. Leviticus 21:15כִּ֛י · for
    …so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”
  33. Leviticus 21:18כִּ֥י
    No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;
  34. Leviticus 21:23כִּֽי־ · because; כִּ֛י · For
    …but because he has a defect, he must not go near the veil or approach the altar, so as not to desecrate My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”
  35. Leviticus 22:6כִּ֛י · unless
    …the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.
  36. Leviticus 22:7כִּ֥י · for
    When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the sacred offerings, for they are his food.
  37. Leviticus 22:9כִּ֣י · because
    The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
  38. Leviticus 22:11כִּֽי־ · But if
    But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.
  39. Leviticus 22:12כִּ֥י · If
    If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.
  40. Leviticus 22:13כִּ֨י · But if
    But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.
  41. Leviticus 22:14כִּֽי־ · If
    If anyone eats a sacred offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the sacred offering to the priest.
  42. Leviticus 22:16כִּ֛י · For
    …by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”
  43. Leviticus 22:20כִּי־ · because
    You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.
  44. Leviticus 22:21כִּֽי־ · When
    When a man presents a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be acceptable.