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. Ezekiel 39:23כִּ֣י · that
    And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.
  2. Ezekiel 39:28כִּ֣י · that
    Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, when I regather them to their own land, not leaving any of them behind after their exile among the nations.
  3. Ezekiel 40:4כִּ֛י · for
    “Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything you see.”
  4. Ezekiel 41:7כִּ֣י
    The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.
  5. Ezekiel 42:5כִּֽי־ · because
    Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.
  6. Ezekiel 42:6כִּ֤י · For
    For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.
  7. Ezekiel 42:8כִּֽי־ · For
    For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.
  8. Ezekiel 42:13כִּ֥י · for
    Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.
  9. Ezekiel 42:14כִּֽי־ · for
    Once the priests have entered the holy area, they must not go out into the outer court until they have left behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they approach the places that are for the people.”
  10. Ezekiel 44:2כִּ֛י · because
    And the LORD said to me, “This gate is to remain shut. It shall not be opened, and no man shall enter through it, because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered through it. Therefore it will remain shut.
  11. Ezekiel 44:10כִּ֣י · Surely
    Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.
  12. Ezekiel 44:22כִּ֣י
    And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but must marry a virgin of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow of a priest.
  13. Ezekiel 44:25כִּ֣י · However
    A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,
  14. Ezekiel 45:14כִּֽי־ · since
    The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).
  15. Ezekiel 46:9כִּ֥י · but
    When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to worship must go out by the south gate, and whoever enters by the south gate must go out by the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which he entered, but each must go out by the opposite gate.
  16. Ezekiel 46:12וְכִֽי־ · When
    When the prince makes a freewill offering to the LORD, whether a burnt offering or a peace offering, the gate facing east must be opened for him. He is to offer his burnt offering or peace offering just as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate must be closed after he goes out.
  17. Ezekiel 46:16כִּֽי־ · If
    This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons as an inheritance, it will belong to his descendants. It will become their property by inheritance.
  18. Ezekiel 46:17וְכִֽי־ · But if
    But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.
  19. Ezekiel 47:1כִּֽי־ · for
    Then the man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.
  20. Ezekiel 47:5כִּֽי־ · because
    Once again he measured off a thousand cubits, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough for swimming—a river that could not be crossed on foot.
  21. Ezekiel 47:9כִּי֩ · because
    Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish.
  22. Ezekiel 47:12כִּ֣י · because
    Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”
  23. Ezekiel 48:14כִּי־ · for
    They must not sell or exchange any of it, and they must not transfer this best part of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.
  24. Daniel 8:17כִּ֖י · that
    As he came near to where I stood, I was terrified and fell facedown. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”
  25. Daniel 8:19כִּ֖י · because
    …and said, “Behold, I will make known to you what will happen in the latter time of wrath, because it concerns the appointed time of the end.
  26. Daniel 8:26כִּ֖י · for
    The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been spoken is true. Now you must seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.”
  27. Daniel 9:9כִּ֥י · even though
    To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him
  28. Daniel 9:11כִּ֥י · because
    All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.
  29. Daniel 9:14כִּֽי־ · For
    Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
  30. Daniel 9:16כִּ֤י · for
    O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
  31. Daniel 9:18כִּ֣י׀ · For; כִּ֖י · but
    Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.
  32. Daniel 9:19כִּֽי־ · because
    O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”
  33. Daniel 9:23כִּ֥י · for
    At the beginning of your petitions, an answer went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly precious. So consider the message and understand the vision:
  34. Daniel 10:11כִּ֥י · for
    He said to me, “Daniel, you are a man who is highly precious. Consider carefully the words that I am about to say to you. Stand up, for I have now been sent to you.” And when he had said this to me, I stood up trembling.
  35. Daniel 10:12כִּ֣י׀ · for
    “Do not be afraid, Daniel,” he said, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.
  36. Daniel 10:14כִּי־ · for
    Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”
  37. Daniel 10:19כִּ֥י · for
    “Do not be afraid, you who are highly precious,” he said. “Peace be with you! Be strong now; be very strong!” As he spoke with me, I was strengthened and said, “Speak, my lord, for you have strengthened me.”
  38. Daniel 10:21כִּ֥י · except
    But first I will tell you what is inscribed in the Book of Truth. Yet no one has the courage to support me against these, except Michael your prince.
  39. Daniel 11:4כִּ֤י · because
    But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four winds of heaven. It will not go to his descendants, nor will it have the authority with which he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and given to others.
  40. Daniel 11:25כִּֽי־
    And with a large army he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South, who will mobilize a very large and powerful army but will not withstand the plots devised against him.
  41. Daniel 11:27כִּי־ · for
    And the two kings, with their hearts bent on evil, will speak lies at the same table, but to no avail, for still the end will come at the appointed time.
  42. Daniel 11:35כִּי־ · for
    Some of the wise will fall so that they may be refined, purified, and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.
  43. Daniel 11:36כִּ֥י · for
    Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
  44. Daniel 11:37כִּ֥י · because
    He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers, nor for the one desired by women, nor for any other god, because he will magnify himself above them all.
  45. Daniel 12:7כִּי֩ · saying
    And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”
  46. Daniel 12:9כִּֽי־ · for
    “Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.
  47. Hosea 1:2כִּֽי־ · because
    When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”
  48. Hosea 1:4כִּי־ · for
    Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
  49. Hosea 1:6כִּי֩ · for
    Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.