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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. Genesis 44:31כִּי־ · that
    …sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
  2. Genesis 44:32כִּ֤י · Indeed
    Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
  3. Genesis 44:34כִּי־ · For
    For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
  4. Genesis 45:3כִּ֥י · because
    Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.
  5. Genesis 45:5כִּֽי־ · that; כִּ֣י · because
    And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
  6. Genesis 45:6כִּי־ · For
    For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
  7. Genesis 45:8כִּ֖י · but
    Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
  8. Genesis 45:11כִּי־ · because
    And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
  9. Genesis 45:12כִּי־ · that
    Behold! You and my brother Benjamin can see that I, Joseph, am the one speaking with you.
  10. Genesis 45:20כִּי־ · for
    But pay no regard to your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”
  11. Genesis 45:26וְכִֽי־ · and; כִּ֥י · for
    “Joseph is still alive,” they said, “and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” But Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.
  12. Genesis 46:3כִּֽי־ · for
    “I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
  13. Genesis 46:30כִּ֥י · [and know] that
    Then Israel said to Joseph, “Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that you are still alive!”
  14. Genesis 46:32כִּֽי־
    The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.’
  15. Genesis 46:33כִּֽי־ · When
    When Pharaoh summons you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’
  16. Genesis 46:34כִּֽי־ · since
    …you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”
  17. Genesis 47:4כִּי־ · because; כִּֽי־ · since
    Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”
  18. Genesis 47:13כִּֽי־ · because
    There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.
  19. Genesis 47:15כִּ֥י · For
    When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”
  20. Genesis 47:18כִּ֚י · that
    When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
  21. Genesis 47:20כִּֽי־; כִּֽי־ · because
    So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,
  22. Genesis 47:22כִּי֩ · for
    However, he did not acquire the priests’ portion of the land, for it had been given to them by Pharaoh. They ate the rations that Pharaoh supplied; so they did not sell their land.
  23. Genesis 48:14כִּ֥י · although
    But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.
  24. Genesis 48:17כִּי־ · that
    When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he was displeased and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.
  25. Genesis 48:18כִּי־
    “Not so, my father!” Joseph said. “This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”
  26. Genesis 49:4כִּ֥י · because
    Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
  27. Genesis 49:6כִּ֤י · For
    May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.
  28. Genesis 49:7כִּ֣י · for; כִּ֣י · for
    Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
  29. Genesis 49:10כִּֽי־
    The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
  30. Genesis 49:15כִּ֣י · that; כִּ֣י · and that
    He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.
  31. Genesis 50:3כִּ֛י
    …taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
  32. Genesis 50:15כִּי־ · that
    When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”
  33. Genesis 50:17כִּי־ · for
    ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.’ So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
  34. Genesis 50:19כִּ֛י
    But Joseph replied, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
  35. Exodus 1:10כִּֽי־
    Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”
  36. Exodus 1:19כִּ֣י · for; כִּֽי־
    The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.”
  37. Exodus 1:21כִּֽי־ · And because
    And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.
  38. Exodus 2:2כִּי־ · that
    …and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.
  39. Exodus 2:10כִּ֥י
    When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
  40. Exodus 2:12כִּ֣י
    After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
  41. Exodus 2:22כִּ֣י
    And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
  42. Exodus 3:4כִּ֣י · that
    When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.
  43. Exodus 3:5כִּ֣י · for
    “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”