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)

Translation

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Concordance 3,910 verses

Genesis 42:16 כִּ֥י

Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
Genesis 42:23 כִּ֥יכִּ֥י

They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.
Genesis 42:33 כִּ֥י

Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.
Genesis 42:34 כִּ֣יכִּ֥י

But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land.’”
Genesis 42:38 כִּֽי־

But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
Genesis 43:5 כִּֽי־

But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’”
Genesis 43:7 כִּ֣י

They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”
Genesis 43:10 כִּ֖יכִּֽי־

If we had not delayed, we could have come and gone twice by now.”
Genesis 43:16 כִּ֥י

When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon.”
Genesis 43:18 כִּ֣י

But the brothers were frightened that they had been taken to Joseph’s house. “We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time,” they said. “They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”
Genesis 43:21 כִּי־

But when we came to the place we lodged for the night, we opened our sacks and, behold, each of us found his silver in the mouth of his sack! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.
Genesis 43:25 כִּ֣יכִּי־

Since the brothers had been told that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Joseph’s arrival at noon.
Genesis 43:30 כִּֽי־

Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.
Genesis 43:32 כִּי֩כִּי־

They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.
Genesis 44:15 כִּֽי־

“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”
Genesis 44:18 כִּ֥י

Then Judah approached Joseph and said, “Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh himself.
Genesis 44:24 כִּ֣י

Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.
Genesis 44:26 כִּי־

But we answered, ‘We cannot go down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.’
Genesis 44:27 כִּ֥י

And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Genesis 44:31 כִּי־

sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
Genesis 44:32 כִּ֤י

Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
Genesis 44:34 כִּי־

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
Genesis 45:3 כִּ֥י

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.
Genesis 45:5 כִּֽי־כִּ֣י

And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
Genesis 45:6 כִּי־

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
Genesis 45:8 כִּ֖י

Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 45:11 כִּי־

And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
Genesis 45:12 כִּי־

Behold! You and my brother Benjamin can see that I, Joseph, am the one speaking with you.
Genesis 45:20 כִּי־

But pay no regard to your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”
Genesis 45:26 וְכִֽי־כִּ֥י

“Joseph is still alive,” they said, “and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” But Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.
Genesis 46:3 כִּֽי־

“I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
Genesis 46:30 כִּ֥י

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that you are still alive!”
Genesis 46:32 כִּֽי־

The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.’
Genesis 46:33 כִּֽי־

When Pharaoh summons you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’
Genesis 46:34 כִּֽי־

you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”
Genesis 47:4 כִּי־כִּֽי־

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”
Genesis 47:13 כִּֽי־

There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.
Genesis 47:15 כִּ֥י

When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”
Genesis 47:18 כִּ֚י

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
Genesis 47:20 כִּֽי־כִּֽי־

So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,
Genesis 47:22 כִּי֩

However, he did not acquire the priests’ portion of the land, for it had been given to them by Pharaoh. They ate the rations that Pharaoh supplied; so they did not sell their land.
Genesis 48:14 כִּ֥י

But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.
Genesis 48:17 כִּי־

When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he was displeased and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.
Genesis 48:18 כִּי־

“Not so, my father!” Joseph said. “This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”
Genesis 49:4 כִּ֥י

Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
Genesis 49:6 כִּ֤י

May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.
Genesis 49:7 כִּ֣יכִּ֣י

Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Genesis 49:10 כִּֽי־

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
Genesis 49:15 כִּ֣יכִּ֣י

He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.
Genesis 50:3 כִּ֛י

taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.