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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. Deuteronomy 5:15כִּ֣י־ · that
    Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  2. Deuteronomy 5:24כִּֽי־ · that
    …and you said, “Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.
  3. Deuteronomy 5:25כִּ֣י · For
    But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.
  4. Deuteronomy 5:26כִּ֣י · For
    For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
  5. Deuteronomy 6:10כִּ֥י · And when
    And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
  6. Deuteronomy 6:15כִּ֣י · For
    For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.
  7. Deuteronomy 6:20כִּֽי־ · when
    In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”
  8. Deuteronomy 6:25כִּֽי־ · then that
    And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”
  9. Deuteronomy 7:1כִּ֤י · When
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
  10. Deuteronomy 7:4כִּֽי־ · because
    …because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.
  11. Deuteronomy 7:5כִּֽי־ · Instead
    Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
  12. Deuteronomy 7:6כִּ֣י · For
    For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
  13. Deuteronomy 7:7כִּֽי־ · for
    The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
  14. Deuteronomy 7:8כִּי֩ · But
    But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  15. Deuteronomy 7:9כִּֽי־ · that
    Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
  16. Deuteronomy 7:16כִּֽי־ · for
    You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
  17. Deuteronomy 7:17כִּ֤י
    You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
  18. Deuteronomy 7:21כִּֽי־ · for
    Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.
  19. Deuteronomy 7:25כִּ֧י · for
    You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
  20. Deuteronomy 7:26כִּי־ · because
    And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.
  21. Deuteronomy 8:3כִּ֠י · that; כִּ֛י · but
    He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
  22. Deuteronomy 8:5כִּ֗י · that
    So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
  23. Deuteronomy 8:7כִּ֚י · For
    For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
  24. Deuteronomy 8:18כִּ֣י
    But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.
  25. Deuteronomy 8:19כִּ֥י · that
    If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
  26. Deuteronomy 9:3כִּי֩ · that
    But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.
  27. Deuteronomy 9:5כִּ֞י · but [it is] because
    It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  28. Deuteronomy 9:6כִּ֠י · that; כִּ֥י · for
    Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
  29. Deuteronomy 9:12כִּ֚י · for
    And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”
  30. Deuteronomy 9:19כִּ֣י · For
    For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.
  31. Deuteronomy 9:25כִּֽי־ · because
    So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
  32. Deuteronomy 10:12כִּ֣י · but
    And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
  33. Deuteronomy 10:17כִּ֚י · For
    For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
  34. Deuteronomy 10:19כִּֽי־ · since
    So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
  35. Deuteronomy 11:2כִּ֣י׀ · that
    Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;
  36. Deuteronomy 11:7כִּ֤י · For [it is]
    For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.
  37. Deuteronomy 11:10כִּ֣י · For
    For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.
  38. Deuteronomy 11:22כִּי֩ · For
    For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
  39. Deuteronomy 11:29כִּ֤י · When
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
  40. Deuteronomy 11:31כִּ֤י · For
    For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,
  41. Deuteronomy 12:5כִּ֠י · Instead
    Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
  42. Deuteronomy 12:9כִּ֥י · For
    For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
  43. Deuteronomy 12:12כִּ֣י · since
    And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
  44. Deuteronomy 12:14כִּ֣י · only
    …you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.
  45. Deuteronomy 12:18כִּ֡י · Instead
    Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,
  46. Deuteronomy 12:20כִּֽי־ · When; כִּֽי־
    When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.
  47. Deuteronomy 12:21כִּֽי־ · If
    If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.