Keraia
Lexicon

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 30:3כִּ֠י · For
    For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
  2. Jeremiah 30:5כִּי־ · Yes
    Yes, this is what the LORD says: “A cry of panic is heard—a cry of terror, not of peace.
  3. Jeremiah 30:7כִּ֥י · How
    How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.
  4. Jeremiah 30:10כִּ֠י · For
    As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
  5. Jeremiah 30:11כִּֽי־ · For; כִּי֩ · Though
    For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
  6. Jeremiah 30:12כִּ֣י · For
    For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
  7. Jeremiah 30:14כִּי֩ · for
    All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.
  8. Jeremiah 30:17כִּי֩ · But; כִּ֤י · because
    But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
  9. Jeremiah 30:21כִּי֩ · for
    Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.
  10. Jeremiah 31:6כִּ֣י · For
    For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”
  11. Jeremiah 31:7כִּי־ · For
    For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
  12. Jeremiah 31:9כִּֽי־ · For
    They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
  13. Jeremiah 31:11כִּֽי־ · For
    For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him.
  14. Jeremiah 31:15כִּ֥י · because
    This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
  15. Jeremiah 31:16כִּי֩ · for
    This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.
  16. Jeremiah 31:18כִּ֥י · for
    I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
  17. Jeremiah 31:19כִּֽי־; כִּ֥י · because
    After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
  18. Jeremiah 31:20כִּֽי־
    Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.
  19. Jeremiah 31:22כִּֽי־ · For
    How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”
  20. Jeremiah 31:25כִּ֥י · for
    …for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”
  21. Jeremiah 31:30כִּ֛י · Instead
    Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
  22. Jeremiah 31:33כִּ֣י · But
    “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  23. Jeremiah 31:34כִּֽי־ · because; כִּ֤י · For
    No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
  24. Jeremiah 32:4כִּ֣י · but
    Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.
  25. Jeremiah 32:5כִּ֧י · If
    He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”
  26. Jeremiah 32:7כִּ֥י · for
    Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’
  27. Jeremiah 32:8כִּֽי־ · for; כִּ֥י · that
    Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
  28. Jeremiah 32:15כִּ֣י · For
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”
  29. Jeremiah 32:30כִּֽי־ · For; כִּ֣י · indeed
    For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.
  30. Jeremiah 32:31כִּ֧י · For
    For this city has aroused My wrath and fury from the day it was built until now. Therefore I will remove it from My presence
  31. Jeremiah 32:42כִּֽי־ · For
    For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.
  32. Jeremiah 32:44כִּֽי־ · because
    Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”
  33. Jeremiah 33:4כִּי֩ · For
    For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword:
  34. Jeremiah 33:11כִּֽי־ · for; כִּֽי־; כִּֽי־ · For
    …the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.
  35. Jeremiah 33:17כִּי־ · For
    For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,
  36. Jeremiah 33:26כִּֽי־ · For
    …then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”
  37. Jeremiah 34:3כִּ֚י · but
    And you yourself will not escape his grasp, but will surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You will see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; and you will go to Babylon.
  38. Jeremiah 34:5כִּֽי־ · For
    …you will die in peace. As spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so people will burn spices for you and lament, ‘Alas, O master!’ For I Myself have spoken this word, declares the LORD.”
  39. Jeremiah 34:7כִּ֣י · For
    …as the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the remaining cities of Judah—against Lachish and Azekah. For these were the only fortified cities remaining in Judah.
  40. Jeremiah 35:6כִּי֩ · for
    “We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.
  41. Jeremiah 35:7כִּ֠י · Instead
    Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
  42. Jeremiah 35:14כִּ֣י · because
    The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!