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כִּי

ki · for

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

English

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 30:9 כִּ֥י ki · Small word: that

    When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.

  2. Genesis 30:13 כִּ֥י ki · Small word: for

    And Leah said, Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy: and she called his name Asher.

  3. Genesis 30:16 כִּ֚י ki · Small word: for

    And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for I have surely hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

  4. Genesis 30:20 כִּֽי־ ki- · Small word: for

    And Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.

  5. Genesis 30:26 כִּ֚י ki · Small word: for

    Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.

  6. Genesis 30:30 כִּ֡י ki · Small word: for

    For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude; and Jehovah hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

  7. Genesis 30:33 כִּֽי־ ki- · Small word: for

    So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when thou shalt come concerning my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.

  8. Genesis 31:5 כִּֽי־ ki- · Small word: that

    and said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.

  9. Genesis 31:6 כִּ֚י ki · Small word: that

    And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

  10. Genesis 31:12 כִּ֣י ki · Small word: for

    And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see: all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

  11. Genesis 31:15 כִּ֣י ki · Small word: for

    Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.

  12. Genesis 31:16 כִּ֣י ki · Small word: for

    For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

  13. Genesis 31:20 כִּ֥י ki · Small word: that

    And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

  14. Genesis 31:22 כִּ֥י ki · Small word: that

    And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

  15. Genesis 31:30 כִּֽי־ ki- · Small word: for

    And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

  16. Genesis 31:31 כִּ֣י ki · Small word: that

    And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force.

  17. Genesis 31:31 כִּ֣י ki · Small word: for

    And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force.

  18. Genesis 31:32 כִּ֥י ki · Small word: that

    With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

  19. Genesis 31:35 כִּ֣י ki · Small word: that

    And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the teraphim.

  20. Genesis 31:35 כִּי־ ki- · Small word: for

    And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the teraphim.

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