Keraia
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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. Numbers 10:9וְכִֽי־ · When
    When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.
  2. Numbers 10:29כִּֽי־ · for
    Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
  3. Numbers 10:30כִּ֧י · Instead
    “I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”
  4. Numbers 10:31כִּ֣י׀ · since
    “Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.
  5. Numbers 10:32כִּי־ · If
    If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
  6. Numbers 11:3כִּֽי־ · because
    So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.
  7. Numbers 11:12כִּֽי־ · so that
    Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?
  8. Numbers 11:13כִּֽי־ · For
    Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
  9. Numbers 11:14כִּ֥י · [it is]
    I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.
  10. Numbers 11:16כִּי־
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.
  11. Numbers 11:18כִּ֡י · because; כִּי־ · For
    And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.
  12. Numbers 11:20כִּֽי־
    …but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
  13. Numbers 11:29כִּי־ · and that
    But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”
  14. Numbers 11:34כִּי־ · because
    So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
  15. Numbers 12:1כִּֽי־ · for
    Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.
  16. Numbers 13:28כִּֽי־
    Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
  17. Numbers 13:30כִּֽי־ · for
    Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”
  18. Numbers 13:31כִּֽי־ · for
    But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”
  19. Numbers 14:9כִּ֥י · for
    Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”
  20. Numbers 14:13כִּֽי־ · of it
    But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.
  21. Numbers 14:14כִּֽי־ · that
    And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
  22. Numbers 14:22כִּ֣י
    …not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
  23. Numbers 14:30כִּ֚י · except
    Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
  24. Numbers 14:40כִּ֥י
    Early the next morning they got up and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. “We have indeed sinned,” they said, “but we will go to the place the LORD has promised.”
  25. Numbers 14:42כִּ֛י · because
    Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.
  26. Numbers 14:43כִּי֩ · For; כִּֽי־ · Because
    For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”
  27. Numbers 15:2כִּ֣י · After
    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land that I am giving you as a home
  28. Numbers 15:8וְכִֽי־ · When
    When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,
  29. Numbers 15:14וְכִֽי־ · if
    And for the generations to come, if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants to prepare a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he is to do exactly as you do.
  30. Numbers 15:22וְכִ֣י · Now if
    Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—
  31. Numbers 15:25כִּֽי־ · for
    The priest is to make atonement for the whole congregation of Israel, so that they may be forgiven; for the sin was unintentional and they have brought to the LORD a food offering and a sin offering, presented before the LORD for their unintentional sin.
  32. Numbers 15:26כִּ֥י · since
    Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.
  33. Numbers 15:31כִּ֤י · because
    He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”
  34. Numbers 15:34כִּ֚י · and because
    …and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.
  35. Numbers 16:3כִּ֤י · For
    They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”
  36. Numbers 16:9כִּֽי־ · you that
    Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel and brought you near to Himself to perform the work at the LORD’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?
  37. Numbers 16:11כִּ֥י · that
    Therefore, it is you and all your followers who have conspired against the LORD! As for Aaron, who is he that you should grumble against him?”
  38. Numbers 16:13כִּ֤י · that; כִּֽי־
    Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?
  39. Numbers 16:28כִּֽי־ · that; כִּי־ · for
    Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things, for it was not my own doing:
  40. Numbers 16:30כִּ֧י · that
    But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
  41. Numbers 16:34כִּ֣י
    At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”
  42. Numbers 16:37כִּ֖י · because
    “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the censers from the flames and to scatter the coals far away, because the censers are holy.
  43. Numbers 16:38כִּֽי־ · for
    As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”
  44. Numbers 16:46כִּֽי־ · because
    Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
  45. Numbers 17:3כִּ֚י · because
    …and write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi, because there must be one staff for the head of each tribe.
  46. Numbers 18:24כִּ֞י · For
    For I have given to the Levites as their inheritance the tithe that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”