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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 12:23כִּ֥י · because
    Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
  2. Deuteronomy 12:25כִּֽי־ · because
    Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
  3. Deuteronomy 12:28כִּ֤י · because
    Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
  4. Deuteronomy 12:29כִּֽי־ · When
    When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
  5. Deuteronomy 12:31כִּי֩ · because; כִּ֣י · They even
    You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
  6. Deuteronomy 13:1כִּֽי־ · If
    If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,
  7. Deuteronomy 13:3כִּ֣י · For
    …you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  8. Deuteronomy 13:5כִּ֣י · because
    Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  9. Deuteronomy 13:6כִּ֣י · If
    If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,
  10. Deuteronomy 13:9כִּ֤י · Instead
    Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
  11. Deuteronomy 13:10כִּ֣י · for
    Stone him to death for trying to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  12. Deuteronomy 13:12כִּֽי־ · If
    If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said
  13. Deuteronomy 13:18כִּ֣י · because
    …because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments I am giving you today and doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
  14. Deuteronomy 14:2כִּ֣י · for
    …for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
  15. Deuteronomy 14:7כִּֽי־ · Although
    But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you,
  16. Deuteronomy 14:8כִּֽי־
    …as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.
  17. Deuteronomy 14:21כִּ֣י · For
    You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
  18. Deuteronomy 14:24וְכִֽי־ · But if; כִּ֣י · because; כִּֽי־ · that with which; כִּ֥י
    But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,
  19. Deuteronomy 14:27כִּ֣י · since
    And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
  20. Deuteronomy 14:29כִּ֣י · because
    Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.
  21. Deuteronomy 15:2כִּֽי־ · because
    This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.
  22. Deuteronomy 15:4כִּ֛י; כִּֽי־ · because
    There will be no poor among you, however, because the LORD will surely bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance,
  23. Deuteronomy 15:6כִּֽי־
    When the LORD your God blesses you as He has promised, you will lend to many nations but borrow from none; you will rule over many nations but be ruled by none.
  24. Deuteronomy 15:7כִּֽי־ · If
    If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
  25. Deuteronomy 15:8כִּֽי־ · Instead
    Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
  26. Deuteronomy 15:10כִּ֞י
    Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.
  27. Deuteronomy 15:11כִּ֛י · For
    For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
  28. Deuteronomy 15:12כִּֽי־ · If
    If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.
  29. Deuteronomy 15:13וְכִֽי־ · And when
    And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.
  30. Deuteronomy 15:15כִּ֣י · that
    Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.
  31. Deuteronomy 15:16כִּֽי־ · But if; כִּ֤י · because; כִּי־ · and
    But if your servant says to you, ‘I do not want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your household and is well off with you,
  32. Deuteronomy 15:18כִּ֗י · because
    Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
  33. Deuteronomy 15:21וְכִֽי־ · But if
    But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
  34. Deuteronomy 16:1כִּ֞י · because
    Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
  35. Deuteronomy 16:3כִּ֣י · because
    You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
  36. Deuteronomy 16:6כִּ֠י · You must only
    You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.
  37. Deuteronomy 16:12כִּי־ · that
    Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.
  38. Deuteronomy 16:15כִּ֣י · because
    For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.
  39. Deuteronomy 16:19כִּ֣י · for
    Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
  40. Deuteronomy 17:1כִּ֧י · for
    You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.
  41. Deuteronomy 17:2כִּֽי־ · If
    If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant
  42. Deuteronomy 17:8כִּ֣י · If
    If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
  43. Deuteronomy 17:14כִּֽי־ · When
    When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”