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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 23:14כִּי֩ · For
    For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.
  2. Deuteronomy 23:18כִּ֧י · because
    You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
  3. Deuteronomy 23:21כִּֽי־ · If; כִּֽי־ · because
    If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.
  4. Deuteronomy 23:22וְכִ֥י · But if
    But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin.
  5. Deuteronomy 23:24כִּ֤י · When
    When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.
  6. Deuteronomy 23:25כִּ֤י · When
    When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
  7. Deuteronomy 24:1כִּֽי־ · If; כִּי־ · to him because
    If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
  8. Deuteronomy 24:3כִ֤י · if
    …and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies,
  9. Deuteronomy 24:4כִּֽי־ · for
    …then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  10. Deuteronomy 24:5כִּֽי־ · If
    If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.
  11. Deuteronomy 24:6כִּי־ · because
    Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
  12. Deuteronomy 24:7כִּי־ · If
    If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  13. Deuteronomy 24:10כִּֽי־ · When
    When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
  14. Deuteronomy 24:15כִּ֤י · because
    You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
  15. Deuteronomy 24:18כִּ֣י · that
    Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
  16. Deuteronomy 24:19כִּ֣י · If
    If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
  17. Deuteronomy 24:20כִּ֤י · When
    When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
  18. Deuteronomy 24:21כִּ֤י · When
    When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
  19. Deuteronomy 24:22כִּי־ · that
    Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
  20. Deuteronomy 25:1כִּֽי־ · If
    If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.
  21. Deuteronomy 25:5כִּֽי־ · When
    When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
  22. Deuteronomy 25:11כִּֽי־ · If
    If two men are fighting, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,
  23. Deuteronomy 25:16כִּ֧י · For
    For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
  24. Deuteronomy 26:1כִּֽי־ · When
    When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it,
  25. Deuteronomy 26:3כִּי־ · that
    …to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”
  26. Deuteronomy 26:12כִּ֣י · When
    When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.
  27. Deuteronomy 27:20כִּ֥י · for
    ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  28. Deuteronomy 28:2כִּ֣י · if
    And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:
  29. Deuteronomy 28:9כִּ֣י · if
    The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
  30. Deuteronomy 28:10כִּ֛י · that
    Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.
  31. Deuteronomy 28:13כִּֽי־ · if
    The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
  32. Deuteronomy 28:38כִּ֥י · because
    You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
  33. Deuteronomy 28:39כִּ֥י · because
    You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
  34. Deuteronomy 28:40כִּ֥י · because
    You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.
  35. Deuteronomy 28:41כִּ֥י · because
    You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
  36. Deuteronomy 28:45כִּי־ · since
    All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
  37. Deuteronomy 28:57כִּֽי־ · because
    …the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
  38. Deuteronomy 28:62כִּי־ · because
    You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
  39. Deuteronomy 29:6כִּ֛י · that
    You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
  40. Deuteronomy 29:15כִּי֩ · but
    …but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.
  41. Deuteronomy 29:16כִּֽי־ · For
    For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.
  42. Deuteronomy 29:19כִּ֛י · even though
    …because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
  43. Deuteronomy 29:20כִּ֣י · Instead
    The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
  44. Deuteronomy 30:1כִֽי־ · When
    “When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
  45. Deuteronomy 30:9כִּ֣י׀ · Indeed,
    So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,
  46. Deuteronomy 30:10כִּ֣י · if; כִּ֤י · [and] if
    …if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  47. Deuteronomy 30:11כִּ֚י · For
    For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.