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כִּי

kiforHow to read Hebrew
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 22:25כִּ֣י · because
    Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”
  2. Leviticus 22:27כִּ֣י · When
    “When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a food offering presented to the LORD.
  3. Leviticus 22:29וְכִֽי־ · When
    When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf.
  4. Leviticus 23:10כִּֽי־ · When
    “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
  5. Leviticus 23:28כִּ֣י · for
    On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.
  6. Leviticus 23:29כִּ֤י · If
    If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.
  7. Leviticus 23:43כִּ֣י · that
    …so that your descendants may know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”
  8. Leviticus 24:9כִּ֡י · for
    It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place; for it is to him a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD—his portion forever.”
  9. Leviticus 24:15כִּֽי־ · If
    And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.
  10. Leviticus 24:17כִּ֥י · And if
    And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
  11. Leviticus 24:19כִּֽי־ · If
    If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:
  12. Leviticus 24:22כִּ֛י · for
    You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
  13. Leviticus 25:2כִּ֤י · When
    “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.
  14. Leviticus 25:12כִּ֚י · For
    For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.
  15. Leviticus 25:14וְכִֽי־ · If
    If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.
  16. Leviticus 25:16כִּ֚י · for
    You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.
  17. Leviticus 25:17כִּ֛י · for
    Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
  18. Leviticus 25:20וְכִ֣י · Now
    Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’
  19. Leviticus 25:23כִּי־ · because; כִּֽי־ · and
    The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
  20. Leviticus 25:25כִּֽי־ · If
    If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.
  21. Leviticus 25:26כִּ֛י · Or if
    Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,
  22. Leviticus 25:29כִּֽי־ · If
    If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.
  23. Leviticus 25:33כִּ֣י · because
    So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.
  24. Leviticus 25:34כִּֽי־ · for
    But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.
  25. Leviticus 25:35וְכִֽי־ · Now if
    Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
  26. Leviticus 25:39וְכִֽי־ · If
    If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
  27. Leviticus 25:42כִּֽי־ · Because
    Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.
  28. Leviticus 25:47וְכִ֣י · If
    If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,
  29. Leviticus 25:55כִּֽי־ · For
    For the Israelites are My servants. They are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
  30. Leviticus 26:1כִּ֛י · For
    “You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.
  31. Leviticus 26:44כִּ֛י · for
    Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
  32. Leviticus 27:2כִּ֥י · When
    “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,
  33. Leviticus 27:14כִּֽי־ · Now if
    Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it.
  34. Numbers 3:13כִּ֣י · for
    …for all the firstborn are Mine. On the day I struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They are Mine; I am the LORD.”
  35. Numbers 5:6כִּ֤י · when
    “Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin against another, that person is guilty
  36. Numbers 5:12כִּֽי־ · if
    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
  37. Numbers 5:15כִּֽי־ · because
    …then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.
  38. Numbers 5:20כִּ֥י · But if; וְכִ֣י · and
    But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—
  39. Numbers 6:2כִּ֤י · if
    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,
  40. Numbers 6:7כִּ֛י · because
    Even if his father or mother or brother or sister should die, he is not to defile himself, because the symbol of consecration to his God is upon his head.
  41. Numbers 6:9וְכִֽי־ · If
    If someone suddenly dies in his presence and defiles his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing—the seventh day.
  42. Numbers 6:12כִּ֥י · because
    He must rededicate his time of separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his separation was defiled.
  43. Numbers 7:9כִּֽי־ · since
    But he did not give any to the Kohathites, since they were to carry on their shoulders the holy objects for which they were responsible.
  44. Numbers 8:16כִּי֩ · For
    For the Levites have been wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel.
  45. Numbers 8:17כִּ֣י · For
    For every firstborn male in Israel is Mine, both man and beast. I set them apart for Myself on the day I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.
  46. Numbers 9:10כִּי־ · When
    “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.
  47. Numbers 9:13כִּ֣י׀ · because
    But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
  48. Numbers 9:14וְכִֽי־ · If
    If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”