Keraia
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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. Isaiah 15:6כִּֽי־; כִּֽי־
    The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
  2. Isaiah 15:8כִּֽי־ · For
    For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.
  3. Isaiah 15:9כִּ֣י · but; כִּֽי־
    The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon—a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
  4. Isaiah 16:4כִּֽי־ · When
    Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,
  5. Isaiah 16:8כִּ֣י · For
    For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
  6. Isaiah 16:9כִּ֧י
    So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.
  7. Isaiah 16:12כִֽי־ · When; כִּֽי־ · when
    When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
  8. Isaiah 17:10כִּ֤י · For
    For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—
  9. Isaiah 18:4כִּי֩ · For
    For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
  10. Isaiah 18:5כִּֽי־ · For
    For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.
  11. Isaiah 19:20כִּֽי־ · When
    It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them.
  12. Isaiah 21:6כִּ֣י · For
    For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
  13. Isaiah 21:15כִּֽי־ · For
    For they flee from the sword—the sword that is drawn—from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.
  14. Isaiah 21:16כִּי־ · For
    For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
  15. Isaiah 21:17כִּ֛י · For
    The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.
  16. Isaiah 22:1כִּֽי־ · that
    This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,
  17. Isaiah 22:5כִּ֣י · For
    For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.
  18. Isaiah 22:9כִּי־ · that
    You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.
  19. Isaiah 22:13כִּ֥י · for
    But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
  20. Isaiah 22:16כִּֽי־
    What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?
  21. Isaiah 22:25כִּ֥י · Indeed
    In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
  22. Isaiah 23:1כִּֽי־ · for
    This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
  23. Isaiah 23:4כִּֽי־ · for
    Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
  24. Isaiah 23:14כִּ֥י · for
    Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!
  25. Isaiah 23:18כִּ֣י · for
    Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.
  26. Isaiah 24:3כִּ֣י · For
    The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.
  27. Isaiah 24:5כִּֽי־
    The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
  28. Isaiah 24:13כִּ֣י · So
    So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
  29. Isaiah 24:18כִּֽי־ · For
    Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
  30. Isaiah 24:23כִּֽי־ · for
    The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.
  31. Isaiah 25:1כִּ֥י · For
    O LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders—plans formed long ago—in perfect faithfulness.
  32. Isaiah 25:2כִּ֣י · Indeed
    Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
  33. Isaiah 25:4כִּֽי־ · For; כִּ֛י · For
    For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
  34. Isaiah 25:8כִּ֥י · For
    He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
  35. Isaiah 25:10כִּֽי־ · For
    For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
  36. Isaiah 26:3כִּ֥י · because
    You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
  37. Isaiah 26:4כִּ֚י · because
    Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
  38. Isaiah 26:5כִּ֤י · For
    For He has humbled those who dwell on high; He lays the lofty city low. He brings it down to the ground; He casts it into the dust.
  39. Isaiah 26:9כִּ֞י · For
    My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
  40. Isaiah 26:12כִּ֛י · For
    O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.
  41. Isaiah 26:19כִּ֣י · For
    Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
  42. Isaiah 26:21כִּֽי־ · For
    For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.
  43. Isaiah 27:10כִּ֣י · For
    For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
  44. Isaiah 27:11כִּ֣י · for
    When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
  45. Isaiah 28:8כִּ֚י · For
    For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.
  46. Isaiah 28:10כִּ֣י · For [they hear]
    For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”