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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. 2 Kings 9:34כִּ֥י · for
    Then Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of this cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was the daughter of a king.”
  2. 2 Kings 9:35כִּ֧י · but
    But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
  3. 2 Kings 10:10כִּי֩ · that
    Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”
  4. 2 Kings 10:19כִּי֩ · for
    Now, therefore, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. See that no one is missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing will not live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.
  5. 2 Kings 10:23כִּ֛י · only
    Next, Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rechab entered the temple of Baal, and Jehu said to the servants of Baal, “Look around to see that there are no servants of the LORD here among you—only servants of Baal.”
  6. 2 Kings 11:1כִּ֣י · that
    When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.
  7. 2 Kings 11:15כִּ֚י · For
    And Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of hundreds in charge of the army, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the house of the LORD.”
  8. 2 Kings 12:7כִּֽי־ · but
    So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”
  9. 2 Kings 12:10כִּֽי־ · that
    Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags.
  10. 2 Kings 12:14כִּֽי־ · Instead
    Instead, it was paid to those doing the work, and with it they repaired the house of the LORD.
  11. 2 Kings 12:15כִּ֥י · because
    No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.
  12. 2 Kings 13:4כִּ֤י · because; כִּֽי־
    Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him because He saw the oppression that the king of Aram had inflicted on Israel.
  13. 2 Kings 13:7כִּ֣י; כִּ֣י · except; כִּ֤י · because
    Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
  14. 2 Kings 14:6כִּ֛י
    Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”
  15. 2 Kings 14:26כִּי־ · For
    For the LORD saw that the affliction of the Israelites, both slave and free, was very bitter. There was no one to help Israel,
  16. 2 Kings 15:16כִּ֛י · because
    At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.
  17. 2 Kings 17:7כִּֽי־ · because
    All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods
  18. 2 Kings 17:21כִּֽי־ · When
    When the LORD had torn Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam led Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin.
  19. 2 Kings 17:36כִּ֣י · Instead
    Instead, worship the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. You are to bow down to Him and offer sacrifices to Him.
  20. 2 Kings 17:39כִּ֛י · but
    …but worship the LORD your God, and He will deliver you from the hands of all your enemies.”
  21. 2 Kings 17:40כִּ֛י · and
    But they would not listen, and they persisted in their former customs.
  22. 2 Kings 18:4כִּ֣י · for
    He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
  23. 2 Kings 18:20כִּ֥י · that
    You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
  24. 2 Kings 18:22וְכִי־ · But if
    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
  25. 2 Kings 18:26כִּ֥י · since
    Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
  26. 2 Kings 18:29כִּי־
    This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; he cannot deliver you from my hand.
  27. 2 Kings 18:31כִּי֩ · for
    Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
  28. 2 Kings 18:32כִּֽי־ · for
    …until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’
  29. 2 Kings 18:34כִּֽי־
    Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
  30. 2 Kings 18:35כִּי־
    Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
  31. 2 Kings 18:36כִּי־ · for
    But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
  32. 2 Kings 19:3כִּ֣י · for
    …to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
  33. 2 Kings 19:8כִּ֣י · When; כִּ֥י · that
    When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
  34. 2 Kings 19:18כִּי֩ · for; כִּ֣י · but
    They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
  35. 2 Kings 19:19כִּ֥י · that
    And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
  36. 2 Kings 19:31כִּ֤י · For
    For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
  37. 2 Kings 20:1כִּ֛י · for
    In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
  38. 2 Kings 20:8כִּֽי־ · that
    Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
  39. 2 Kings 20:9כִּ֚י · that
    And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”
  40. 2 Kings 20:10כִ֔י
    “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”
  41. 2 Kings 20:12כִּ֣י · for; כִּ֥י · about
    At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness.
  42. 2 Kings 22:7כִּ֥י · since
    But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity.”
  43. 2 Kings 22:13כִּֽי־ · For
    “Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”
  44. 2 Kings 23:9כִּ֛י
    Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.