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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. Lamentations 1:19כִּֽי־ · while
    I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
  2. Lamentations 1:20כִּֽי־ · how; כִּ֥י · for
    See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
  3. Lamentations 1:21כִּ֧י; כִּ֥י · that
    People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.
  4. Lamentations 1:22כִּֽי־ · For
    Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.
  5. Lamentations 2:13כִּֽי־ · For
    What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
  6. Lamentations 3:8כִּ֤י · when
    Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
  7. Lamentations 3:22כִּ֣י · Because of; כִּ֥י · for
    Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
  8. Lamentations 3:27כִּֽי־
    It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
  9. Lamentations 3:28כִּ֥י · for
    Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him.
  10. Lamentations 3:31כִּ֣י · For
    For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
  11. Lamentations 3:32כִּ֣י · Even
    Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
  12. Lamentations 3:33כִּ֣י · For
    For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
  13. Lamentations 4:3כִּי · like
    Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
  14. Lamentations 4:12כִּ֤י · that
    The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
  15. Lamentations 4:15כִּ֥י · So
    “Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”
  16. Lamentations 4:18כִּי־
    They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!
  17. Lamentations 5:16כִּ֥י · for
    The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
  18. Lamentations 5:22כִּ֚י · unless
    …unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
  19. Ezekiel 1:20כִּ֛י · because
    Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
  20. Ezekiel 1:21כִּ֛י · because
    When the creatures moved, the wheels moved; when the creatures stood still, the wheels stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
  21. Ezekiel 2:5כִּ֛י · for; כִּ֥י · that
    And whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.
  22. Ezekiel 2:6כִּ֣י · though; כִּ֛י · though
    But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their presence, though they are a rebellious house.
  23. Ezekiel 2:7כִּ֥י · to listen
    But speak My words to them, whether they listen or refuse to listen, for they are rebellious.
  24. Ezekiel 3:5כִּ֡י · For
    For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
  25. Ezekiel 3:7כִּֽי־ · since; כִּ֚י · For
    But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.
  26. Ezekiel 3:9כִּ֛י · even though
    I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.”
  27. Ezekiel 3:19כִּֽי־ · But if
    But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
  28. Ezekiel 3:20כִּ֣י · If
    Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.
  29. Ezekiel 3:21כִּ֧י · But if; כִּ֣י · because
    But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
  30. Ezekiel 3:26כִּ֛י · though
    I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.
  31. Ezekiel 3:27כִּ֛י · for
    But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you are to tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ Whoever listens, let him listen; and whoever refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.
  32. Ezekiel 5:6כִּ֤י · For
    But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’
  33. Ezekiel 5:13כִּי־ · that
    And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.
  34. Ezekiel 6:7כִּֽי־ · that
    The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
  35. Ezekiel 6:10כִּֽי־ · that
    And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.
  36. Ezekiel 6:13כִּֽי־ · that
    Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
  37. Ezekiel 6:14כִּֽי־ · that
    I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
  38. Ezekiel 7:4כִּ֣י · but I will punish you for; כִּֽי־ · that
    I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
  39. Ezekiel 7:9כִּ֛י · that
    I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.
  40. Ezekiel 7:12כִּ֥י · for
    The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.
  41. Ezekiel 7:13כִּ֣י · will surely; כִּֽי־ · For
    The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain alive. For the vision concerning the whole multitude will not be revoked, and because of their iniquity, not one of them will preserve his life.