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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. Judges 12:3כִּֽי־ · that
    When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”
  2. Judges 12:4כִּ֤י · because
    Jephthah then gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives in Ephraim, living in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.”
  3. Judges 12:5כִּ֣י · whenever
    The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”
  4. Judges 13:5כִּי֩ · For; כִּֽי־ · because
    For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
  5. Judges 13:7כִּֽי־ · because
    But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”
  6. Judges 13:16כִּ֚י · For; כִּֽי־
    And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.
  7. Judges 13:17כִּֽי־ · so that
    Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes to pass?”
  8. Judges 13:21כִּֽי־ · that
    And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD.
  9. Judges 13:22כִּ֥י · for
    “We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”
  10. Judges 14:3כִּֽי־; כִּֽי־ · for
    But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”
  11. Judges 14:4כִּ֤י; כִּי־ · was from
    (Now his father and mother did not know this was from the LORD, who was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines; for at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.)
  12. Judges 14:9כִּ֛י · that
    So he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. And when he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
  13. Judges 14:10כִּ֛י · as
    Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
  14. Judges 14:17כִּ֣י · because
    She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.
  15. Judges 15:2כִּי־ · that
    “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”
  16. Judges 15:3כִּֽי־
    Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”
  17. Judges 15:6כִּ֚י · For
    “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
  18. Judges 15:7כִּ֛י · until
    And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”
  19. Judges 15:11כִּֽי־ · that
    In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
  20. Judges 15:13כִּֽי־ · but
    “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
  21. Judges 16:16כִּֽי־
    Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,
  22. Judges 16:17כִּֽי־ · because
    Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”
  23. Judges 16:18כִּֽי־ · that; כִּֽי־ · for
    When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: “Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.
  24. Judges 16:20כִּ֥י · that
    Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.
  25. Judges 16:24כִּ֣י · saying
    And when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our land and multiplied our dead.”
  26. Judges 16:25כִּי
    And while their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison to entertain them. And they stationed him between the pillars.
  27. Judges 17:13כִּֽי־ · that; כִּ֧י · because
    Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”
  28. Judges 18:1כִּי֩ · For
    In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
  29. Judges 18:9כִּ֤י · for
    They answered, “Come on, let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and it is very good. Why would you fail to act? Do not hesitate to go there and take possession of the land!
  30. Judges 18:10כִּֽי־ · for
    When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
  31. Judges 18:14כִּ֠י · that
    Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.”
  32. Judges 18:23כִּ֥י · that
    When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”
  33. Judges 18:26כִּי־ · that
    So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.
  34. Judges 18:28כִּ֧י · because
    There was no one to deliver them, because the city was far from Sidon and had no alliance with anyone; it was in a valley near Beth-rehob. And the Danites rebuilt the city and lived there.
  35. Judges 20:3כִּֽי־ · that
    (Meanwhile the Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this wicked thing happen?”
  36. Judges 20:6כִּ֥י · because
    Then I took my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israel’s inheritance, because they had committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
  37. Judges 20:28כִּ֥י · for
    …and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served before it.) The Israelites asked, “Should we again go out to battle against our brothers the Benjamites, or should we stop?” The LORD answered, “Fight, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”
  38. Judges 20:34כִּֽי־ · that
    Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.
  39. Judges 20:36כִּ֣י; כִּ֤י · because
    Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
  40. Judges 20:39כִּ֣י
    …the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”
  41. Judges 20:41כִּ֣י · when; כִּֽי־ · that
    Then the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had come upon them.
  42. Judges 21:5כִּי֩ · For
    The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.