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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 14:22כִּֽי־ · for
    Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
  2. Jeremiah 15:2כִּֽי־ · If
    If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’
  3. Jeremiah 15:5כִּ֠י
    Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
  4. Jeremiah 15:10כִּ֣י · that
    Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
  5. Jeremiah 15:14כִּֽי־ · for
    Then I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for My anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”
  6. Jeremiah 15:16כִּֽי־ · For
    Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
  7. Jeremiah 15:17כִּֽי־ · for
    I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
  8. Jeremiah 15:20כִּֽי־ · for
    Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.
  9. Jeremiah 16:3כִּי־ · For
    For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:
  10. Jeremiah 16:5כִּֽי־ · Indeed; כִּֽי־ · for
    Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.
  11. Jeremiah 16:9כִּי֩ · For
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
  12. Jeremiah 16:10כִּ֤י · When
    When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’
  13. Jeremiah 16:15כִּ֣י · Instead [they will say]
    Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.
  14. Jeremiah 16:17כִּ֤י · For
    For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
  15. Jeremiah 16:21כִּֽי־ · that
    “Therefore behold, I will inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is the LORD.
  16. Jeremiah 17:4כִּֽי־ · for
    And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”
  17. Jeremiah 17:6כִּי־ · when
    He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
  18. Jeremiah 17:8כִּֽי־ · when
    He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
  19. Jeremiah 17:13כִּ֥י · for
    O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
  20. Jeremiah 17:14כִּ֥י · for
    Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.
  21. Jeremiah 18:12כִּֽי־
    But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
  22. Jeremiah 18:15כִּֽי־ · Yet
    Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
  23. Jeremiah 18:18כִּי֩ · for
    Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
  24. Jeremiah 18:20כִּֽי־ · Yet
    Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
  25. Jeremiah 18:22כִּֽי־ · when; כִּֽי־ · for
    Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
  26. Jeremiah 19:6כִּ֖י · but
    So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
  27. Jeremiah 19:15כִּ֤י · because
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
  28. Jeremiah 20:3כִּ֖י · but
    The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
  29. Jeremiah 20:4כִּ֣י · For
    For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.
  30. Jeremiah 20:8כִּֽי־ · For; כִּֽי־ · For
    For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.
  31. Jeremiah 20:10כִּ֣י · For
    For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
  32. Jeremiah 20:11כִּֽי־ · Since
    But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
  33. Jeremiah 20:12כִּ֥י · for
    O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
  34. Jeremiah 20:13כִּ֥י · For
    Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.
  35. Jeremiah 21:2כִּ֛י · since
    “Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is waging war against us. Perhaps the LORD will perform for us something like all His past wonders, so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us.”
  36. Jeremiah 21:10כִּ֣י · For
    For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.’
  37. Jeremiah 22:4כִּ֤י · For
    For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.
  38. Jeremiah 22:5כִּי־ · that
    But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
  39. Jeremiah 22:6כִּֽי־ · For
    For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
  40. Jeremiah 22:10כִּ֣י · for
    Do not weep for him who is dead; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for him who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.
  41. Jeremiah 22:11כִּ֣י · For
    For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,
  42. Jeremiah 22:12כִּ֗י · but
    …but he will die in the place to which he was exiled; he will never see this land again.”
  43. Jeremiah 22:15כִּ֥י
    Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
  44. Jeremiah 22:17כִּ֣י · But; כִּ֖י · except
    “But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
  45. Jeremiah 22:20כִּ֥י · for
    Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.
  46. Jeremiah 22:21כִּ֥י · that
    I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.