Keraia
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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 18:5כִּ֣י · For
    For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.
  2. Deuteronomy 18:6וְכִֽי־ · Now if
    Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
  3. Deuteronomy 18:9כִּ֤י · When
    When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
  4. Deuteronomy 18:12כִּֽי־
    For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.
  5. Deuteronomy 18:14כִּ֣י׀ · Though
    Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
  6. Deuteronomy 18:21וְכִ֥י
    You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
  7. Deuteronomy 19:1כִּֽי־ · When
    When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
  8. Deuteronomy 19:6כִּי־; כִּֽי־ · if; כִּ֠י · since
    Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him if the distance is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve to die, since he did not intend any harm.
  9. Deuteronomy 19:9כִּֽי־ · and if
    …and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.
  10. Deuteronomy 19:11וְכִֽי־ · If, however
    If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,
  11. Deuteronomy 19:16כִּֽי־ · If
    If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
  12. Deuteronomy 20:1כִּֽי־ · When; כִּֽי־ · for
    When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.
  13. Deuteronomy 20:4כִּ֚י · For
    For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.”
  14. Deuteronomy 20:10כִּֽי־ · When
    When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.
  15. Deuteronomy 20:17כִּֽי־ · For
    For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,
  16. Deuteronomy 20:19כִּֽי־ · When; כִּ֚י · because; כִּ֤י
    When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
  17. Deuteronomy 20:20כִּֽי־
    But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
  18. Deuteronomy 21:1כִּי־ · If
    If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
  19. Deuteronomy 21:5כִּ֣י · for
    And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name and to give a ruling in every dispute and case of assault.
  20. Deuteronomy 21:9כִּֽי־ · since
    So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
  21. Deuteronomy 21:10כִּֽי־ · When
    When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,
  22. Deuteronomy 21:15כִּֽי־ · If
    If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
  23. Deuteronomy 21:17כִּי֩ · Instead; כִּי־ · For
    Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.
  24. Deuteronomy 21:18כִּֽי־ · If
    If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
  25. Deuteronomy 21:22וְכִֽי־ · If
    If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
  26. Deuteronomy 21:23כִּֽי־ · but; כִּֽי־ · because
    …you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  27. Deuteronomy 22:5כִּ֧י · for
    A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
  28. Deuteronomy 22:6כִּ֣י · If
    If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
  29. Deuteronomy 22:8כִּ֤י · If; כִּֽי־ · if
    If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
  30. Deuteronomy 22:13כִּֽי־ · Suppose
    Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her,
  31. Deuteronomy 22:19כִּ֤י · because
    They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
  32. Deuteronomy 22:21כִּֽי־ · For
    …she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  33. Deuteronomy 22:22כִּֽי־ · If
    If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
  34. Deuteronomy 22:23כִּ֤י · If
    If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
  35. Deuteronomy 22:26כִּ֡י · because
    Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
  36. Deuteronomy 22:27כִּ֥י · When
    When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.
  37. Deuteronomy 22:28כִּֽי־ · If
    If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
  38. Deuteronomy 23:5כִּ֥י · because
    Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
  39. Deuteronomy 23:7כִּ֥י · for; כִּי־ · because
    Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
  40. Deuteronomy 23:9כִּֽי־ · When
    When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.
  41. Deuteronomy 23:10כִּֽי־ · If
    If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.