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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. Jeremiah 4:28כִּי־
    Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”
  2. Jeremiah 4:30כִּֽי־ · though; כִּי־ · though; כִּֽי־ · though
    And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
  3. Jeremiah 4:31כִּי֩ · For; כִּֽי־ · for
    For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
  4. Jeremiah 5:4כִּ֣י · for
    Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
  5. Jeremiah 5:5כִּ֣י · Surely
    I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
  6. Jeremiah 5:6כִּ֤י · For
    Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.
  7. Jeremiah 5:10כִּ֛י · for
    Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
  8. Jeremiah 5:11כִּי֩ · For
    For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me,” declares the LORD.
  9. Jeremiah 5:19כִּ֣י · when
    And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
  10. Jeremiah 5:26כִּי־ · For
    For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
  11. Jeremiah 6:1כִּ֥י · for
    “Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.
  12. Jeremiah 6:4כִּי־ · for; כִּ֥י
    ‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.
  13. Jeremiah 6:6כִּ֣י · For
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.
  14. Jeremiah 6:11כִּֽי־ · For
    But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.
  15. Jeremiah 6:12כִּֽי־ · for
    Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.
  16. Jeremiah 6:13כִּ֤י · For
    “For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
  17. Jeremiah 6:15כִּ֥י
    Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.
  18. Jeremiah 6:19כִּ֤י · because
    Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
  19. Jeremiah 6:25כִּ֚י · For
    Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
  20. Jeremiah 6:26כִּ֣י · for
    O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
  21. Jeremiah 6:30כִּֽי־ · because
    They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
  22. Jeremiah 7:5כִּ֤י · For
    For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
  23. Jeremiah 7:12כִּ֣י · But
    But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
  24. Jeremiah 7:16כִּי־ · for
    As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
  25. Jeremiah 7:22כִּ֠י · For
    For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
  26. Jeremiah 7:23כִּ֣י · but
    …but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
  27. Jeremiah 7:29כִּ֚י · for
    Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
  28. Jeremiah 7:30כִּֽי־ · For
    For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
  29. Jeremiah 7:32כִּ֖י · but
    So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
  30. Jeremiah 7:34כִּ֥י · for
    I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
  31. Jeremiah 8:10כִּ֤י · For
    Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
  32. Jeremiah 8:12כִּ֥י · of the abomination
    Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
  33. Jeremiah 8:14כִּי֩ · for; כִּ֥י · because
    Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
  34. Jeremiah 8:17כִּי֩ · For
    “For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
  35. Jeremiah 8:22כִּ֗י · then
    Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
  36. Jeremiah 9:2כִּ֤י · for
    If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
  37. Jeremiah 9:3כִּי֩ · For
    “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
  38. Jeremiah 9:4כִּ֤י · for
    “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
  39. Jeremiah 9:7כִּֽי־ · for
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?
  40. Jeremiah 9:10כִּ֤י · for
    I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
  41. Jeremiah 9:19כִּ֣י · For; כִּֽי־ · For; כִּ֥י · because
    For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
  42. Jeremiah 9:20כִּֽי־ · Now
    Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.
  43. Jeremiah 9:21כִּֽי־ · For
    For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.