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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. 1 Samuel 16:7כִּ֤י · For
    But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”
  2. 1 Samuel 16:11כִּ֥י · For
    And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
  3. 1 Samuel 16:12כִּֽי־ · for
    So Jesse sent for his youngest son and brought him in. He was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the LORD said, “Rise and anoint him, for he is the one.”
  4. 1 Samuel 16:22כִּֽי־ · for
    Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”
  5. 1 Samuel 17:25כִּ֛י
    Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”
  6. 1 Samuel 17:26כִּ֣י · that; כִּ֣י
    David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
  7. 1 Samuel 17:28כִּ֗י
    Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”
  8. 1 Samuel 17:33כִּֽי־
    But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
  9. 1 Samuel 17:36כִּ֣י · for
    Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
  10. 1 Samuel 17:39כִּ֣י · but; כִּ֣י
    David strapped his sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not accustomed to them. “I cannot walk in these,” David said to Saul. “I am not accustomed to them.” So David took them off.
  11. 1 Samuel 17:42כִּֽי־ · because
    When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome.
  12. 1 Samuel 17:43כִּֽי־ · that
    “Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
  13. 1 Samuel 17:46כִּ֛י · that
    This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
  14. 1 Samuel 17:47כִּֽי־ · that; כִּ֤י · for
    And all those assembled here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and He will give all of you into our hands.”
  15. 1 Samuel 17:48כִּֽי־ · As
    As the Philistine started forward to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.
  16. 1 Samuel 17:51כִּֽי־ · that
    David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him, and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.
  17. 1 Samuel 18:12כִּֽי־ · because
    So Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul.
  18. 1 Samuel 18:16כִּֽי־ · because
    But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he was leading them out to battle and back.
  19. 1 Samuel 18:18כִּֽי־ · that
    And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”
  20. 1 Samuel 18:25כִּ֗י · but
    Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.
  21. 1 Samuel 18:28כִּ֥י · that
    When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,
  22. 1 Samuel 19:4כִּ֣י · In fact; וְכִ֥י
    Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you.
  23. 1 Samuel 20:1כִּ֥י · that
    Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”
  24. 1 Samuel 20:3כִּֽי־ · that; כִּ֣י
    But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
  25. 1 Samuel 20:6כִּ֣י · because
    If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
  26. 1 Samuel 20:7כִּֽי־
    If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
  27. 1 Samuel 20:8כִּ֚י · for
    Therefore show kindness to your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?”
  28. 1 Samuel 20:9כִּ֣י׀; כִּֽי־ · that
    “Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”
  29. 1 Samuel 20:12כִּֽי־
    …and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?
  30. 1 Samuel 20:13כִּֽי־ · But if
    But if my father intends to bring evil on you, then may the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if I do not tell you and send you on your way in safety. May the LORD be with you, just as He has been with my father.
  31. 1 Samuel 20:17כִּֽי־ · for
    And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.
  32. 1 Samuel 20:18כִּ֥י · because
    Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
  33. 1 Samuel 20:21כִּֽי־ · because
    Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you, and there is no danger.
  34. 1 Samuel 20:22כִּ֥י · for
    But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.
  35. 1 Samuel 20:26כִּ֤י · because; כִּֽי־ · surely
    Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
  36. 1 Samuel 20:29כִּ֣י · because
    …saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
  37. 1 Samuel 20:30כִּֽי־ · that
    Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?
  38. 1 Samuel 20:31כִּ֣י · For; כִּ֥י · for
    For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”
  39. 1 Samuel 20:33כִּֽי־ · that
    Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
  40. 1 Samuel 20:34כִּ֤י · for; כִּ֥י · by
    Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.
  41. 1 Samuel 21:4כִּֽי־
    “There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”