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 18:26כִּֽי־ · When
    “Speak to the Levites and tell them: ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you as your inheritance, you must present part of it as an offering to the LORD—a tithe of the tithe.
  2. Numbers 18:31כִּֽי־
    And you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting.
  3. Numbers 19:13כִּי֩ · because
    Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.
  4. Numbers 19:14כִּֽי־ · when
    This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,
  5. Numbers 19:20כִּי֩ · because
    But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
  6. Numbers 20:24כִּ֣י
    “Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.
  7. Numbers 20:29כִּ֥י · that
    When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days.
  8. Numbers 21:1כִּ֚י · that
    When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked Israel and captured some prisoners.
  9. Numbers 21:5כִּ֣י
    …and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
  10. Numbers 21:7כִּֽי־ · by
    Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so He will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses interceded for the people.
  11. Numbers 21:13כִּ֤י · Now
    From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.
  12. Numbers 21:24כִּ֣י · because
    And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.
  13. Numbers 21:26כִּ֣י
    Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.
  14. Numbers 21:28כִּי־ · For
    For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
  15. Numbers 21:34כִּ֣י · for
    But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
  16. Numbers 22:3כִּ֣י · because
    …and Moab was terrified of the people because they were numerous. Indeed, Moab dreaded the Israelites.
  17. Numbers 22:6כִּֽי־ · because; כִּ֣י · for
    So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”
  18. Numbers 22:12כִּ֥י · for
    But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”
  19. Numbers 22:13כִּ֚י · because
    So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s princes, “Go back to your homeland, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”
  20. Numbers 22:17כִּֽי־ · for
    …for I will honor you richly and do whatever you say. So please come and put a curse on this people for me!’”
  21. Numbers 22:22כִּֽי־ · because
    Then God’s anger was kindled because Balaam was going along, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
  22. Numbers 22:28כִּ֣י · that
    Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”
  23. Numbers 22:29כִּ֥י; כִּ֥י
    Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!”
  24. Numbers 22:32כִּֽי־ · because
    The angel of the LORD asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you, because your way is perverse before me.
  25. Numbers 22:33כִּ֥י
    The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If she had not turned away, then by now I would surely have killed you and let her live.”
  26. Numbers 22:34כִּ֚י · for; כִּ֥י · that
    “I have sinned,” Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “for I did not realize that you were standing in the road to confront me. And now, if this is displeasing in your sight, I will go back home.”
  27. Numbers 22:36כִּ֣י · that
    When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite city on the Arnon border, at the edge of his territory.
  28. Numbers 23:9כִּֽי־ · For
    For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.
  29. Numbers 23:23כִּ֤י · For
    For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’
  30. Numbers 24:1כִּ֣י · that
    And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not seek omens as on previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.
  31. Numbers 24:22כִּ֥י · Yet
    Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.”
  32. Numbers 25:18כִּ֣י · For
    For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”
  33. Numbers 26:33כִּ֣י · but only
    Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but only daughters. The names of his daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
  34. Numbers 26:62כִּ֣י׀; כִּ֠י · because
    The registration of the Levites totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
  35. Numbers 26:65כִּֽי־ · For; כִּ֚י · except
    For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
  36. Numbers 27:3כִּֽי־ · Instead
    “Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the followers of Korah who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons.
  37. Numbers 27:4כִּ֛י · because
    Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our father’s brothers.”
  38. Numbers 27:8כִּֽי־ · If
    Furthermore, you shall say to the Israelites, ‘If a man dies and leaves no son, you are to transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
  39. Numbers 30:2כִּֽי־ · If
    If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.
  40. Numbers 30:3כִּֽי־ · And if
    And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,
  41. Numbers 30:5כִּי־ · because
    But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.
  42. Numbers 30:14כִּי־ · because
    But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.
  43. Numbers 32:11כִּ֥י · Because
    ‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
  44. Numbers 32:12כִּ֥י · because
    …not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun—because they did follow the LORD wholeheartedly.’
  45. Numbers 32:15כִּ֤י · For if
    For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”