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 47:5כִּ֣י · For
    “Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.
  2. Isaiah 48:2כִּֽי־ · who indeed
    …who indeed call yourselves after the holy city and lean on the God of Israel; the LORD of Hosts is His name.
  3. Isaiah 48:4כִּ֥י · that
    For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
  4. Isaiah 48:8כִּ֤י · For
    You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.
  5. Isaiah 48:11כִּ֣י · for
    For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.
  6. Isaiah 49:10כִּי־ · For
    They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
  7. Isaiah 49:13כִּֽי־ · For
    Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
  8. Isaiah 49:18כִּ֤י
    Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.
  9. Isaiah 49:19כִּ֤י · For; כִּ֤י · indeed
    For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
  10. Isaiah 49:23כִּֽי־ · that
    Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”
  11. Isaiah 49:25כִּי־ · Indeed
    Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.
  12. Isaiah 49:26כִּ֣י · that
    I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
  13. Isaiah 50:7כִּי־ · that
    Because the Lord GOD helps Me, I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set My face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.
  14. Isaiah 51:2כִּי־ · When
    Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
  15. Isaiah 51:3כִּֽי־ · For
    For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
  16. Isaiah 51:4כִּ֤י · for
    Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.
  17. Isaiah 51:6כִּֽי־ · for
    Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
  18. Isaiah 51:8כִּ֤י · For
    For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
  19. Isaiah 52:1כִּ֣י · For
    Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.
  20. Isaiah 52:3כִּֽי־ · For
    For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”
  21. Isaiah 52:4כִּ֣י · For
    For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.
  22. Isaiah 52:5כִּֽי־ · For
    And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.
  23. Isaiah 52:6כִּֽי־ · that
    Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”
  24. Isaiah 52:8כִּ֣י · For
    Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they shout for joy. For every eye will see when the LORD returns to Zion.
  25. Isaiah 52:9כִּֽי־ · for
    Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.
  26. Isaiah 52:12כִּ֣י · For; כִּֽי־ · for
    For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.
  27. Isaiah 52:15כִּ֠י · For
    …so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.
  28. Isaiah 53:8כִּ֤י · For
    By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
  29. Isaiah 54:1כִּֽי־ · because
    “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
  30. Isaiah 54:3כִּי־ · For
    For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.
  31. Isaiah 54:4כִּי־ · for; כִּ֣י · for; כִּ֣י · For
    Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
  32. Isaiah 54:5כִּ֤י · For
    For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.
  33. Isaiah 54:6כִּֽי־ · For; כִּ֥י · like
    For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
  34. Isaiah 54:9כִּי־ · For
    “For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.
  35. Isaiah 54:10כִּ֤י · Though
    Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
  36. Isaiah 54:14כִּֽי־ · for; כִּ֥י · for
    In righteousness you will be established, far from oppression, for you will have no fear. Terror will be far removed, for it will not come near you.
  37. Isaiah 55:5כִּ֥י · For
    Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”
  38. Isaiah 55:7כִּֽי־ · for
    Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
  39. Isaiah 55:8כִּ֣י · For
    “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
  40. Isaiah 55:9כִּֽי־ · For
    “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
  41. Isaiah 55:10כִּ֡י · For; כִּ֚י · without
    For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
  42. Isaiah 55:11כִּ֤י · but
    …so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
  43. Isaiah 55:12כִּֽי־ · You will indeed
    You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.