Keraia
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כִּי

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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. Amos 3:14כִּ֗י
    On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.
  2. Amos 4:2כִּ֛י
    The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
  3. Amos 4:5כִּ֣י · For
    Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
  4. Amos 4:12כִּֽי־
    “Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
  5. Amos 4:13כִּ֡י · For
    For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
  6. Amos 5:3כִּ֣י · This is what
    This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will have but a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
  7. Amos 5:4כִּ֣י · For
    For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
  8. Amos 5:5כִּ֤י · for
    Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
  9. Amos 5:12כִּ֤י · For
    For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
  10. Amos 5:13כִּ֛י · for
    Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
  11. Amos 5:17כִּֽי־ · for
    There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
  12. Amos 5:22כִּ֣י · Even
    Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
  13. Amos 6:10כִּ֛י · for
    And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”
  14. Amos 6:11כִּֽי־ · For
    For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”
  15. Amos 6:12כִּֽי־ · But
    “Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
  16. Amos 6:14כִּ֡י · For
    For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
  17. Amos 7:2כִּ֥י · since
    And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
  18. Amos 7:5כִּ֥י · since
    Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
  19. Amos 7:11כִּי־ · for
    …for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
  20. Amos 7:13כִּ֤י · because
    But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.”
  21. Amos 7:14כִּֽי־ · rather
    “I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
  22. Amos 8:11כִּ֣י · but [a famine]
    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
  23. Amos 9:8כִּ֠י · Yet
    Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.
  24. Amos 9:9כִּֽי־ · For
    “For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.
  25. Obadiah 1:15כִּֽי־ · For
    For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.
  26. Obadiah 1:16כִּ֗י · For
    For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.
  27. Obadiah 1:18כִּ֥י · For
    Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble—Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” For the LORD has spoken.
  28. Jonah 1:2כִּֽי־ · because
    “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
  29. Jonah 1:10כִּֽי־; כִּֽי־ · that; כִּ֥י · because
    Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What have you done?” The men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
  30. Jonah 1:11כִּ֥י · Now
    Now the sea was growing worse and worse, so they said to Jonah, “What must we do to you to calm this sea for us?”
  31. Jonah 1:12כִּ֚י · For; כִּ֣י · that
    “Pick me up,” he answered, “and cast me into the sea, so it may quiet down for you. For I know that I am to blame for this violent storm that has come upon you.”
  32. Jonah 1:13כִּ֣י · for
    Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.
  33. Jonah 1:14כִּֽי־ · For
    So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”
  34. Jonah 3:10כִּי־ · that
    When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
  35. Jonah 4:2כִּ֣י · that; כִּ֤י
    So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
  36. Jonah 4:3כִּ֛י · for
    And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
  37. Micah 1:3כִּֽי־ · For
    For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
  38. Micah 1:7כִּ֠י · Since
    All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
  39. Micah 1:9כִּ֥י · For; כִּי־
    For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.
  40. Micah 1:12כִּֽי־ · For; כִּֽי־ · but
    For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
  41. Micah 1:13כִּי־ · for
    Harness your chariot horses, O dweller of Lachish. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
  42. Micah 1:16כִּ֥י · for
    Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
  43. Micah 2:1כִּ֥י · because
    Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
  44. Micah 2:3כִּ֛י · for
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.