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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

Page 16 of 79. 3907 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Deuteronomy 11:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;

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  2. Deuteronomy 11:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.

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  3. Deuteronomy 11:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.

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  4. Deuteronomy 11:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

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  5. Deuteronomy 11:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

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  6. Deuteronomy 11:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,

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  7. Deuteronomy 12:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

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  8. Deuteronomy 12:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.

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  9. Deuteronomy 12:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

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  10. Deuteronomy 12:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.

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  11. Deuteronomy 12:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,

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  12. Deuteronomy 12:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.

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  13. Deuteronomy 12:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.

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  14. Deuteronomy 12:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

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  15. Deuteronomy 12:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

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  16. Deuteronomy 12:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

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  17. Deuteronomy 12:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,

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  18. Deuteronomy 12:31 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

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  19. Deuteronomy 13:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,

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    Source alternate reference: 13.2

  20. Deuteronomy 13:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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    Source alternate reference: 13.4

  21. Deuteronomy 13:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.

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    Source alternate reference: 13.6

  22. Deuteronomy 13:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,

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    Source alternate reference: 13.7

  23. Deuteronomy 13:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

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    Source alternate reference: 13.10

  24. Deuteronomy 13:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Stone him to death for trying to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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    Source alternate reference: 13.11

  25. Deuteronomy 13:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said

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    Source alternate reference: 13.13

  26. Deuteronomy 13:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments I am giving you today and doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

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    Source alternate reference: 13.19

  27. Deuteronomy 14:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

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  28. Deuteronomy 14:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you,

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  29. Deuteronomy 14:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.

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  30. Deuteronomy 14:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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  31. Deuteronomy 14:24 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,

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  32. Deuteronomy 14:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

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  33. Deuteronomy 14:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

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  34. Deuteronomy 15:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.

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  35. Deuteronomy 15:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    There will be no poor among you, however, because the LORD will surely bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance,

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  36. Deuteronomy 15:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the LORD your God blesses you as He has promised, you will lend to many nations but borrow from none; you will rule over many nations but be ruled by none.

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  37. Deuteronomy 15:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.

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  38. Deuteronomy 15:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.

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  39. Deuteronomy 15:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.

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  40. Deuteronomy 15:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.

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  41. Deuteronomy 15:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.

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  42. Deuteronomy 15:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.

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  43. Deuteronomy 15:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.

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  44. Deuteronomy 15:16 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    But if your servant says to you, ‘I do not want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your household and is well off with you,

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  45. Deuteronomy 15:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.

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  46. Deuteronomy 15:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

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  47. Deuteronomy 16:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

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  48. Deuteronomy 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

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  49. Deuteronomy 16:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.

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  50. Deuteronomy 16:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.

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