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. Genesis 13:6כִּֽי־ · for
    But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.
  2. Genesis 13:8כִּֽי־ · After all
    So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are kinsmen.
  3. Genesis 13:10כִּ֥י
    And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
  4. Genesis 13:15כִּ֧י · for
    …for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
  5. Genesis 13:17כִּ֥י · for
    Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”
  6. Genesis 14:14כִּ֥י · that
    And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.
  7. Genesis 15:4כִּי־ · but
    Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
  8. Genesis 15:8כִּ֥י · that
    But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”
  9. Genesis 15:13כִּי־ · that
    Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
  10. Genesis 15:16כִּ֧י · for
    In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
  11. Genesis 16:4כִּ֣י · that
    And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
  12. Genesis 16:5כִּ֣י · that
    Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
  13. Genesis 16:11כִּֽי־ · for
    The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
  14. Genesis 16:13כִּ֣י · for
    So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
  15. Genesis 17:5כִּ֛י · for
    No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
  16. Genesis 17:15כִּ֥י · for
    Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
  17. Genesis 18:5כִּֽי־ · This is why
    And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.”
  18. Genesis 18:15כִּ֣י׀ · so; כִּ֥י · but
    But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD, “but you did laugh.”
  19. Genesis 18:19כִּ֣י · For
    For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
  20. Genesis 18:20כִּי־ · Because; כִּ֥י
    Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
  21. Genesis 19:2כִּ֥י
    …and said, “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
  22. Genesis 19:8כִּֽי־ · for
    Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
  23. Genesis 19:13כִּֽי־ · because; כִּֽי־ · For
    …because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”
  24. Genesis 19:14כִּֽי־ · for
    So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
  25. Genesis 19:22כִּ֣י · for
    Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
  26. Genesis 19:30כִּ֥י · for
    Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.
  27. Genesis 20:6כִּ֤י · that
    Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
  28. Genesis 20:7כִּֽי־ · for; כִּי־ · that
    Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die—you and all who belong to you.”
  29. Genesis 20:9כִּֽי־ · that
    Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done.”
  30. Genesis 20:10כִּ֥י
    Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do such a thing?”
  31. Genesis 20:11כִּ֣י
    Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
  32. Genesis 20:18כִּֽי־ · for
    …for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.
  33. Genesis 21:7כִּֽי־ · Yet
    She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
  34. Genesis 21:10כִּ֣י · for
    …and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
  35. Genesis 21:12כִּ֣י · for
    But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
  36. Genesis 21:13כִּ֥י · because
    But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
  37. Genesis 21:16כִּ֣י · for
    Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.
  38. Genesis 21:17כִּֽי־ · for
    Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.
  39. Genesis 21:18כִּֽי־ · for
    Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
  40. Genesis 21:30כִּ֚י; כִּ֥י · that
    He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”
  41. Genesis 21:31כִּ֛י · because
    So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
  42. Genesis 22:12כִּ֣י׀ · for; כִּֽי־ · that
    “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
  43. Genesis 22:16כִּ֗י · that
    …saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
  44. Genesis 22:17כִּֽי־
    I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.