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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. 1 Kings 8:27כִּֽי־
    But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
  2. 1 Kings 8:35כִּ֣י · because; כִּ֥י · because
    When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
  3. 1 Kings 8:36כִּ֥י · so that
    …then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
  4. 1 Kings 8:37כִּֽי־ · When; כִּֽי־ · [or]; כִּ֣י · [or]; כִּ֧י · when
    When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
  5. 1 Kings 8:39כִּֽי־ · for
    …be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—
  6. 1 Kings 8:42כִּ֤י · for
    …for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
  7. 1 Kings 8:43כִּי־ · that
    …then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
  8. 1 Kings 8:44כִּי־ · When
    When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
  9. 1 Kings 8:46כִּ֣י · When; כִּ֣י · for
    When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,
  10. 1 Kings 8:51כִּֽי־ · For
    For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.
  11. 1 Kings 8:53כִּֽי־ · For
    For You, O Lord GOD, have set them apart from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our fathers out of Egypt.”
  12. 1 Kings 8:60כִּ֥י · that
    …so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God. There is no other!
  13. 1 Kings 8:64כִּי־ · and; כִּֽי־ · since
    On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
  14. 1 Kings 9:22כִּי־ · because
    But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slavery, because they were his men of war, his servants, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.
  15. 1 Kings 10:22כִּי֩ · For
    For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
  16. 1 Kings 11:9כִּֽי־ · because
    Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
  17. 1 Kings 11:16כִּ֣י
    Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.
  18. 1 Kings 11:21כִּֽי־ · that; וְכִי־ · and that
    When Hadad heard in Egypt that David had rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, that I may return to my own country.”
  19. 1 Kings 11:22כִּ֠י; כִּ֥י · but
    But Pharaoh asked him, “What have you lacked here with me that you suddenly want to go back to your own country?” “Nothing,” Hadad replied, “but please let me go.”
  20. 1 Kings 11:28כִּֽי־ · that
    Now Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.
  21. 1 Kings 11:31כִּ֣י · for
    …and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.
  22. 1 Kings 11:34כִּ֣י׀ · because
    Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.
  23. 1 Kings 12:1כִּ֥י · for
    Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
  24. 1 Kings 12:15כִּֽי־ · and indeed
    So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
  25. 1 Kings 12:16כִּ֠י · that
    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,
  26. 1 Kings 12:20כִּֽי־ · that
    When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.
  27. 1 Kings 12:24כִּ֧י · for
    …that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.
  28. 1 Kings 13:9כִּֽי־ · For
    For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”
  29. 1 Kings 13:17כִּֽי־ · For
    For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”
  30. 1 Kings 13:21כִּ֤י
    …and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
  31. 1 Kings 13:32כִּי֩ · for
    …for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”
  32. 1 Kings 14:2כִּי־
    …and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people.
  33. 1 Kings 14:4כִּ֛י · for
    Jeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.
  34. 1 Kings 14:5כִּֽי־ · for
    But the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised.”
  35. 1 Kings 14:11כִּ֥י · For
    Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.’ For the LORD has spoken.
  36. 1 Kings 14:13כִּֽי־ · For
    All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.
  37. 1 Kings 15:4כִּ֚י · Nevertheless
    Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.
  38. 1 Kings 16:18כִּֽי־ · that
    When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down upon himself. So he died
  39. 1 Kings 17:1כִּ֖י · except
    Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
  40. 1 Kings 17:7כִּ֛י · because
    Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
  41. 1 Kings 17:12כִּ֣י · only
    But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”
  42. 1 Kings 17:14כִּ֣י · for
    …for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’”