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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. Genesis 1:4 כִּי־ ki- · Small word: that

    And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

  2. Genesis 1:10 כִּי־ ki- · Small word: that

    And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

  3. Genesis 1:12 כִּי־ ki- · Small word: that

    And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

  4. Genesis 1:18 כִּי־ ki- · Small word: that

    and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

  5. Genesis 1:21 כִּי־ ki- · Small word: that

    And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

  6. Genesis 1:25 כִּי־ ki- · Small word: that

    And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

  7. Genesis 2:3 כִּ֣י ki · Small word: for

    And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

  8. Genesis 2:5 כִּי֩ ki · Small word: for

    And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;

  9. Genesis 2:17 כִּ֗י Ki · Small word: for

    but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

  10. Genesis 2:23 כִּ֥י ki · Small word: for

    And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

  11. Genesis 3:1 כִּֽי־ ki- · Small word: that

    Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

  12. Genesis 3:5 כִּ֚י ki · Small word: for

    for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

  13. Genesis 3:5 כִּ֗י Ki · Small word: that

    for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

  14. Genesis 3:6 כִּ֣י ki · Small word: that

    And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

  15. Genesis 3:6 וְכִ֧י ve.Khi · Small word: and that

    And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

  16. Genesis 3:7 כִּ֥י ki · Small word: that

    And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

  17. Genesis 3:10 כִּֽי־ ki- · Small word: for

    And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

  18. Genesis 3:11 כִּ֥י ki · Small word: that

    And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

  19. Genesis 3:14 כִּ֣י ki · Small word: for

    And Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

  20. Genesis 3:17 כִּֽי־ ki- · Small word: for

    And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

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