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כִּי

ki · for

Hebrew · Strong's H3588 · Conjunction · Sounds like: kee · 4,483 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • for H3588A 4,336
  • that if: except H3588B · combination of 137
  • for as that: since H3588C · combination of 10

Strong's dictionary

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; 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.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
כִּי conj. that, for, when
1. that
2.
a. Of time, when, of the past
b. elsewhere כִּי has a force approximating to if, though it usu. represents a case as more likely to occur than אִם
c. when or if, with a concessive force, i.e. though
3. Because, since
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
כִּי אם־
1. each part. retaining its independent force, and relating to a different clause:
a. that if
b. for if
2. (About 140 t.) the two particles being closely conjoined, and relating to the same clause—
a. limiting the prec. clause, except
b. the if being neglected, and treated as pleonastic, so that the clause is no longer a limitation of the preceding clause but a contradiction of it: but rather, but
c. after an oath, surely
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
כִּי עַל כֵּן forasmuch as

Every occurrence

  1. Numbers 3:13 כִּ֣י ki · Small word: for

    for all the first-born are mine; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast; mine they shall be: I am Jehovah.

  2. Numbers 5:6 כִּ֤י ki · Small word: if

    Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Jehovah, and that soul shall be guilty;

  3. Numbers 5:12 כִּֽי־ ki- · Small word: if

    Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,

  4. Numbers 5:15 כִּֽי־ ki- · Small word: for

    then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and shall bring her oblation for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is a meal-offering of jealousy, a meal-offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

  5. Numbers 5:20 כִּ֥י ki · Small word: if

    But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:

  6. Numbers 5:20 וְכִ֣י ve.Khi · Small word: and if

    But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:

  7. Numbers 6:2 כִּ֤י ki · Small word: if

    Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself unto Jehovah,

  8. Numbers 6:7 כִּ֛י ki · Small word: for

    He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation unto God is upon his head.

  9. Numbers 6:9 וְכִֽי־ ve.khi- · Small word: and if

    And if any man die very suddenly beside him, and he defile the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

  10. Numbers 6:12 כִּ֥י ki · Small word: for

    And he shall separate unto Jehovah the days of his separation, and shall bring a he-lamb a year old for a trespass-offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

  11. Numbers 7:9 כִּֽי־ ki- · Small word: for

    But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged unto them; they bare it upon their shoulders.

  12. Numbers 8:16 כִּי֩ ki · Small word: for

    For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of all that openeth the womb, even the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.

  13. Numbers 8:17 כִּ֣י ki · Small word: for

    For all the first-born among the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.

  14. Numbers 9:10 כִּי־ ki- · Small word: if

    Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto Jehovah.

  15. Numbers 9:13 כִּ֣י׀ ki · Small word: for

    But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he offered not the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

  16. Numbers 9:14 וְכִֽי־ ve.khi- · Small word: and if

    And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto Jehovah; according to the statute of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one statute, both for the sojourner, and for him that is born in the land.

  17. Numbers 10:9 וְכִֽי־ ve.khi- · Small word: and if

    And when ye go to war in your land against the adversary that oppresseth you, then ye shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

  18. Numbers 10:29 כִּֽי־ ki- · Small word: for

    And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying unto the place of which Jehovah said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for Jehovah hath spoken good concerning Israel.

  19. Numbers 10:30 כִּ֧י ki · Small word: that

    And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.

  20. Numbers 10:31 כִּ֣י׀ ki · Small word: for

    And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes.

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