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 28:11כִּ֚י · Indeed
    Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
  2. Isaiah 28:15כִּ֣י · For; כִּֽי־ · When; כִּ֣י · because
    For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
  3. Isaiah 28:18כִּ֣י · When
    Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
  4. Isaiah 28:19כִּֽי־
    As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.
  5. Isaiah 28:20כִּֽי־ · Indeed
    Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.
  6. Isaiah 28:21כִּ֤י · For
    For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
  7. Isaiah 28:22כִּֽי־ · Indeed
    So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.
  8. Isaiah 28:27כִּ֣י · Surely; כִּ֧י · But
    Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
  9. Isaiah 28:28כִּ֛י · but
    Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.
  10. Isaiah 29:10כִּֽי־ · For
    For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
  11. Isaiah 29:11כִּ֥י · because
    And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
  12. Isaiah 29:13כִּ֤י
    Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
  13. Isaiah 29:16כִּֽי־ · Shall
    You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?
  14. Isaiah 29:20כִּֽי־ · For
    For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—
  15. Isaiah 29:23כִּ֣י · For
    For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
  16. Isaiah 30:4כִּֽי־ · For though
    For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
  17. Isaiah 30:5כִּ֥י · but
    …everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They bring neither help nor benefit, but only shame and disgrace.”
  18. Isaiah 30:9כִּ֣י
    These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
  19. Isaiah 30:15כִּ֣י · For
    For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence—but you were not willing.”
  20. Isaiah 30:16כִ֛י
    “No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.
  21. Isaiah 30:18כִּֽי־ · for
    Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
  22. Isaiah 30:19כִּי־
    O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you.
  23. Isaiah 30:21כִּ֥י · And whether; וְכִ֥י
    And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
  24. Isaiah 30:31כִּֽי־ · For
    For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; He will strike them with His scepter.
  25. Isaiah 30:33כִּֽי־ · For
    For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
  26. Isaiah 31:1כִּ֣י; כִּֽי־
    Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
  27. Isaiah 31:4כִּ֣י · For
    For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
  28. Isaiah 31:7כִּ֚י · For
    For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
  29. Isaiah 32:6כִּ֤י · For
    For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
  30. Isaiah 32:10כִּ֚י · For
    In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
  31. Isaiah 32:13כִּ֚י · even
    …and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
  32. Isaiah 32:14כִּֽי־ · For
    For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—
  33. Isaiah 33:5כִּ֥י · for
    The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
  34. Isaiah 33:21כִּ֣י
    But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.
  35. Isaiah 33:22כִּ֤י · For
    For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.
  36. Isaiah 34:2כִּ֣י
    The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.
  37. Isaiah 34:5כִּֽי־ · When
    When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
  38. Isaiah 34:6כִּ֣י · For
    The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
  39. Isaiah 34:8כִּ֛י · For
    For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
  40. Isaiah 34:16כִּֽי־ · because
    Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.
  41. Isaiah 35:6כִּֽי־ · For
    Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
  42. Isaiah 36:5כִּ֥י · 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?
  43. Isaiah 36:7וְכִי־ · 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’?
  44. Isaiah 36:11כִּ֥י · since
    Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
  45. Isaiah 36:14כִּ֥י · for
    This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.