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ki H3588

כִּי (ki) means “for” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

כִּי Hebrew · H3588 4,482 tagged occurrences in 3,907 verses

Pronunciation guide: kee Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H3588A

כִּי · ki · for

1) that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since 1a) that 1a1) yea, indeed 1b) when (of time) 1b1) when, if, though (with a concessive force) 1c) because, since (causal connection) 1d) but (after negative) 1e) that if, for if, indeed if, for though, but if 1f) but rather, but 1g) except that 1h) only, nevertheless 1i) surely 1j) that is 1k) but if 1l) for though 1m) forasmuch as, for therefore

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TBESH · H3588B

כִּי [אם] · ki im · that if: except

1) except if 1a) but if 1b) even though

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TBESH · H3588C

כִּי [עַל כֵּן] · ki [al ken] · for as that: since

1) that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since 1a) that 1a1) yea, indeed 1b) when (of time) 1b1) when, if, though (with a concessive force) 1c) because, since (causal connection) 1d) but (after negative) 1e) that if, for if, indeed if, for though, but if 1f) but rather, but 1g) except that 1h) only, nevertheless 1i) surely 1j) that is 1k) but if 1l) for though 1m) forasmuch as, for therefore

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Strong’s Hebrew 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

KJV glosses: 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.

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How translators render H3588

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
for 1765
that 571
because 518
when 192
if 120
but 117
since 89
though 53
indeed 37
surely 37
instead 24
and 22
but if 21
except 21
although 19
yet 18
how 14
even 13
vvv 13
and that 12
but only 10
so 10
yes 10
and if 9
so that 9
and when 8
even though 7
now if 7
to 7
who 7
as 6
now 6
only 5
saying 5
then 5
unless 5
or 4
rather 4
therefore 4
after 3
and because 3
and since 3
by 3
even if 3
for when 3
however 3
just because 3
like 3
nevertheless 3
suppose 3
than 3
whenever 3
about 2
and how 2
and indeed 2
as for 2
but when 2
for if 2
for though 2
from 2
how then 2
if you had not 2
in 2
in fact 2
now that 2
then that 2
while 2
without 2
you 2
after all 1
all that 1
and although 1
and became 1
and being 1
and even if 1
and know that 1
and so 1
and though 1
and whether 1
are indeed 1
as surely as 1
as to 1
as well 1
at how 1
at last 1
at least 1
because of 1
because of what 1
because this will mean that 1
because you 1
because you are 1
behalf 1
but a famine 1
but acted 1
but because 1
but i will punish you for 1
but it is because 1
but rather 1
can even 1
do as follows 1
do not 1
even when 1
exactly 1
except as a place 1
for as 1
for even 1
for in so doing 1
for in that 1
for it is 1
for it was 1
for moses had said 1
for otherwise 1
for surely 1
for their 1
for then 1
for they hear 1
for they said 1
for we have indeed 1
for which 1
forsaking me 1
from other duties 1
from you 1
has surely 1
have 1
have i ever 1
he had only 1
him 1
how much more 1
i even 1
i will surely 1
if however 1
if they ever 1
if we had not 1
in egypt 1
instead they will say 1
is he not rightly 1
is that 1
it is 1
it was 1
it was because 1
it will surely 1
man because 1
more so 1
moreover said the women when 1
no 1
not only 1
now suppose 1
now when 1
of him who 1
of it 1
of the abomination 1
of the one 1
once 1
one 1
one but 1
or if 1
or when 1
other than 1
otherwise 1
out because 1
place unless 1
really 1
saying because 1
saying indeed 1
shall 1
so since 1
so when 1
spring from 1
that if 1
that it was i 1
that this 1
that when 1
that with which 1
the only 1
then surely 1
then when 1
there 1
they even 1
this is what 1
this is why 1
to have this 1
to him because 1
to listen 1
too 1
too great 1
truly 1
until 1
was from 1
was he not 1
we did this because 1
what was happening 1
whether 1
which was given this name because 1
who are indeed 1
who indeed 1
why 1
will it be when 1
will surely 1
with 1
with them 1
you must only 1
you that 1
you when 1
you will indeed 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
for 2
that 2
until 2
also in which 1
although 1
and 1
and the man 1
as 1
assuredly 1
but 1
curseth 1
doubtless 1
else 1
even 1
for me than that 1
for thee so that 1
forasmuch 1
how 1
if 1
in that 1
inasmuch as 1
is not he rightly 1
it because 1
it whether thou refuse 1
it yet 1
nevertheless 1
now 1
now therefore 1
seeing 1
since 1
surely 1
that hath 1
them 1
there why then 1
though 1
till 1
truly 1
unto thee that 1
when 1
whereas 1
while 1
whom 1
yea 1

Verses containing H3588

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  1. Leviticus 25:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’

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  2. Leviticus 25:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

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  3. Leviticus 25:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

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  4. Leviticus 25:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,

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  5. Leviticus 25:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.

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  6. Leviticus 25:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.

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  7. Leviticus 25:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.

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  8. Leviticus 25:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

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  9. Leviticus 25:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

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  10. Leviticus 25:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.

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  11. Leviticus 25:47 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,

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  12. Leviticus 25:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the Israelites are My servants. They are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

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  13. Leviticus 26:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.

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  14. Leviticus 26:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

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  15. Leviticus 27:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,

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  16. Leviticus 27:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it.

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  17. Numbers 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    for all the firstborn are Mine. On the day I struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They are Mine; I am the LORD.”

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  18. Numbers 5:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin against another, that person is guilty

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  19. Numbers 5:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him

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  20. Numbers 5:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.

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  21. Numbers 5:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—

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  22. Numbers 6:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,

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  23. Numbers 6:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Even if his father or mother or brother or sister should die, he is not to defile himself, because the symbol of consecration to his God is upon his head.

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  24. Numbers 6:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If someone suddenly dies in his presence and defiles his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing—the seventh day.

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  25. Numbers 6:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He must rededicate his time of separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his separation was defiled.

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  26. Numbers 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But he did not give any to the Kohathites, since they were to carry on their shoulders the holy objects for which they were responsible.

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  27. Numbers 8:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the Levites have been wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel.

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  28. Numbers 8:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For every firstborn male in Israel is Mine, both man and beast. I set them apart for Myself on the day I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.

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  29. Numbers 9:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.

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  30. Numbers 9:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.

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  31. Numbers 9:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”

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  32. Numbers 10:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.

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  33. Numbers 10:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

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  34. Numbers 10:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”

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  35. Numbers 10:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.

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  36. Numbers 10:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”

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  37. Numbers 11:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.

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  38. Numbers 11:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

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  39. Numbers 11:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

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  40. Numbers 11:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.

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  41. Numbers 11:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.

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  42. Numbers 11:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.

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  43. Numbers 11:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

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  44. Numbers 11:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”

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  45. Numbers 11:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

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  46. Numbers 12:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.

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  47. Numbers 13:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

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  48. Numbers 13:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”

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  49. Numbers 13:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”

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  50. Numbers 14:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”

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