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. Joshua 2:11כִּ֚י · for
    When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.
  2. Joshua 2:12כִּי־ · because
    Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD that you will indeed show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure sign
  3. Joshua 2:15כִּ֤י · since
    Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
  4. Joshua 2:24כִּֽי־ · has surely
    “The LORD has surely delivered the entire land into our hands,” they said to Joshua. “Indeed, all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of us.”
  5. Joshua 3:4כִּ֣י · since
    But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.”
  6. Joshua 3:5כִּ֣י · for
    Then Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”
  7. Joshua 3:7כִּ֗י · that
    Now the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.
  8. Joshua 3:10כִּ֛י · that
    He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
  9. Joshua 4:6כִּֽי־ · when
    …to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
  10. Joshua 4:24כִּ֥י · that
    He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God.”
  11. Joshua 5:5כִּֽי־ · Though
    Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.
  12. Joshua 5:6כִּ֣י׀ · For
    For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  13. Joshua 5:7כִּי־ · since; כִּ֛י
    And He raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones Joshua circumcised. Until this time they were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.
  14. Joshua 5:14כִּ֛י
    “Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as Commander of the LORD’s army.” Then Joshua fell facedown in reverence and asked Him, “What does my Lord have to say to His servant?”
  15. Joshua 5:15כִּ֣י · for
    The Commander of the LORD’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.
  16. Joshua 6:16כִּֽי־ · For
    After the seventh time around, the priests blew the horns, and Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!
  17. Joshua 6:17כִּ֣י · because
    Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
  18. Joshua 6:25כִּ֤י · because
    And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.
  19. Joshua 7:3כִּ֥י · Since
    On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”
  20. Joshua 7:12כִּ֥י · because
    This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you whatever is devoted to destruction.
  21. Joshua 7:13כִּ֣י · for
    Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.
  22. Joshua 7:15כִּ֤י · because; וְכִֽי־ · [and]
    The one who is caught with the things devoted to destruction must be burned, along with all that belongs to him, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD and committed an outrage in Israel.’”
  23. Joshua 8:5כִּֽי־ · When
    Then I and all the troops with me will advance on the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.
  24. Joshua 8:6כִּ֣י · for
    They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,
  25. Joshua 8:14כִּֽי־ · that
    When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.
  26. Joshua 8:18כִּ֥י · for
    Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out your battle lance toward Ai, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out his battle lance toward Ai,
  27. Joshua 8:21כִּֽי־ · that; וְכִ֥י · and that
    When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.
  28. Joshua 9:9כִּֽי־ · For
    “Your servants have come from a very distant land,” they replied, “because of the fame of the LORD your God. For we have heard the reports about Him: all that He did in Egypt,
  29. Joshua 9:16כִּי־ · that
    Three days after they had made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites learned that they were neighbors, living among them.
  30. Joshua 9:18כִּֽי־ · because
    But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. And the whole congregation grumbled against the leaders.
  31. Joshua 9:24כִּי֩
    The Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we have done this.
  32. Joshua 10:1כִּֽי־ · that; וְכִ֨י · and that
    Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.
  33. Joshua 10:2כִּ֣י · because; וְכִ֨י
    So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
  34. Joshua 10:4כִּֽי־ · because
    “Come up and help me. We will attack Gibeon, because they have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”
  35. Joshua 10:6כִּ֚י · because
    Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from the hill country have joined forces against us.”
  36. Joshua 10:8כִּ֥י · for
    The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for I have delivered them into your hand. Not one of them shall stand against you.”
  37. Joshua 10:14כִּ֣י · because
    There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man, because the LORD fought for Israel.
  38. Joshua 10:19כִּ֧י · for
    But you, do not stop there. Pursue your enemies and attack them from behind. Do not let them reach their cities, for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.”
  39. Joshua 10:25כִּ֣י · for
    “Do not be afraid or discouraged,” Joshua said. “Be strong and courageous, for the LORD will do this to all the enemies you fight.”
  40. Joshua 10:42כִּ֗י · because
    And because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel, Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campaign.
  41. Joshua 11:6כִּֽי־ · for
    Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for by this time tomorrow I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn up their chariots.”
  42. Joshua 11:10כִּֽי־ · because
    At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword, because Hazor was formerly the head of all these kingdoms.
  43. Joshua 11:20כִּ֣י · For; כִּ֚י
    For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  44. Joshua 14:3כִּֽי־ · For
    For Moses had given the inheritance east of the Jordan to the other two and a half tribes. But he granted no inheritance among them to the Levites.