כִּי

ki

Hebrew H3588 Conjunction 4,486 occurrences in 3,910 verses
כִּי for

1. that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since

a. that

1. yea, indeed

b. when (of time)

1. when, if, though (with a concessive force)

c. because, since (causal connection)

d. but (after negative)

e. that if, for if, indeed if, for though, but if

f. but rather, but

g. except that

h. only, nevertheless

i. surely

j. that is

k. but if

l. for though

m. forasmuch as, for therefore

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 3,910 verses

  1. 1 Chronicles 22:18 כִּ֣י׀

    “Is not the LORD your God with you, and has He not granted you rest on every side? For He has given the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land has been subdued before the LORD and His people.

  2. Eleazar died without having any sons; he had only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.

  3. For David had said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to His people and has come to dwell in Jerusalem forever.

  4. For according to the final instructions of David, the Levites twenty years of age or older were counted,

  5. but their duty was to assist the descendants of Aaron with the service of the house of the LORD, being responsible for the courts and chambers, the purification of all the holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God,

  6. Thus they were divided by lot, for there were officers of the sanctuary and officers of God among both Eleazar’s and Ithamar’s descendants.

  7. Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth. For God had blessed Obed-edom.

  8. 1 Chronicles 26:6 כִּֽי־

    Also to his son Shemaiah were born sons who ruled over their families because they were strong, capable men.

  9. Hosah the Merarite also had sons: Shimri the first (although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him as the first),

  10. David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.

  11. but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for My Name, because you are a man of war who has spilled blood.’

  12. Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah He chose my father’s household, and from my father’s sons He was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

  13. And of all my sons—for the LORD has given me many sons—He has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

  14. And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.

  15. As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

  16. 1 Chronicles 28:10 כִּֽי־

    Consider now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.”

  17. David also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will neither fail you nor forsake you before all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.

  18. 1 Chronicles 29:1 כִּ֣יכִּ֖י

    Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.

  19. And the people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given to the LORD freely and wholeheartedly. And King David also rejoiced greatly.

  20. Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

  21. 1 Chronicles 29:14 וְכִ֨יכִּֽי־כִּֽי־

    But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.

  22. 1 Chronicles 29:15 כִּֽי־

    For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

  23. I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.

  24. 2 Chronicles 1:3 כִּי־

    And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

  25. 2 Chronicles 1:4 כִּ֧י

    Now David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.

  26. 2 Chronicles 1:9 כִּ֤י

    Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

  27. 2 Chronicles 1:10 כִּֽי־

    Now grant me wisdom and knowledge, so that I may lead this people. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”

  28. 2 Chronicles 2:5 כִּֽי־

    The house that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

  29. 2 Chronicles 2:6 כִּ֧יכִּ֖י

    But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?

  30. 2 Chronicles 2:8 כִּ֚י

    Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber there. And indeed, my servants will work with yours

  31. 2 Chronicles 2:9 כִּ֥י

    to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.

  32. Solomon made all these articles in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

  33. Now all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless of their divisions. And when the priests came out of the Holy Place,

  34. 2 Chronicles 5:13 כִּ֣יכִּ֥י

    The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud

  35. 2 Chronicles 5:14 כִּֽי־

    so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

  36. 2 Chronicles 6:8 כִּ֥י

    But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.

  37. 2 Chronicles 6:9 כִּ֤י

    Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’

  38. 2 Chronicles 6:13 כִּֽי־

    Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

  39. 2 Chronicles 6:18 כִּ֚יכִּֽי־

    But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

  40. When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple,

  41. 2 Chronicles 6:26 כִּ֣יכִּ֥י

    When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

  42. then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.

  43. 2 Chronicles 6:28 כִּֽי־כִּֽי־כִּ֣יכִּ֧י

    When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

  44. be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men—

  45. 2 Chronicles 6:33 כִּֽי־

    then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.

  46. 2 Chronicles 6:34 כִּֽי־

    When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,

  47. 2 Chronicles 6:36 כִּ֣יכִּ֣י

    When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near,

  48. 2 Chronicles 7:2 כִּֽי־

    The priests were unable to enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled it.

  49. 2 Chronicles 7:3 כִּ֣יכִּ֥י

    When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.”

  50. 2 Chronicles 7:6 כִּֽי־

    The priests stood at their posts, as did the Levites with the musical instruments of the LORD, which King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD and with which David had offered praise, saying, “For His loving devotion endures forever.” Across from the Levites, the priests sounded trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.

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