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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. 1 Kings 8:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  2. 1 Kings 8:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  3. 1 Kings 8:27 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

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  4. 1 Kings 8:35 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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,

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  5. 1 Kings 8:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  6. 1 Kings 8:37 · BSB · 4 occurrences

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

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  7. 1 Kings 8:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  8. 1 Kings 8:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,

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  9. 1 Kings 8:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  10. 1 Kings 8:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  11. 1 Kings 8:46 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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 his own land, whether far or near,

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  12. 1 Kings 8:51 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.

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  13. 1 Kings 8:53 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For You, O Lord GOD, have set them apart from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our fathers out of Egypt.”

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  14. 1 Kings 8:60 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God. There is no other!

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  15. 1 Kings 8:64 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.

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  16. 1 Kings 9:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slavery, because they were his men of war, his servants, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.

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  17. 1 Kings 10:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

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  18. 1 Kings 11:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now the LORD grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

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  19. 1 Kings 11:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.

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  20. 1 Kings 11:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    When Hadad heard in Egypt that David had rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, that I may return to my own country.”

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  21. 1 Kings 11:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But Pharaoh asked him, “What have you lacked here with me that you suddenly want to go back to your own country?” “Nothing,” Hadad replied, “but please let me go.”

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  22. 1 Kings 11:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.

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  23. 1 Kings 11:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.

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  24. 1 Kings 11:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.

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  25. 1 Kings 12:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.

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  26. 1 Kings 12:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.

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  27. 1 Kings 12:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,

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  28. 1 Kings 12:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.

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  29. 1 Kings 12:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.

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  30. 1 Kings 13:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”

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  31. 1 Kings 13:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”

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  32. 1 Kings 13:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,

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  33. 1 Kings 13:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”

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  34. 1 Kings 14:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people.

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  35. 1 Kings 14:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

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  36. 1 Kings 14:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised.”

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  37. 1 Kings 14:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.’ For the LORD has spoken.

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  38. 1 Kings 14:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.

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  39. 1 Kings 15:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.

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  40. 1 Kings 16:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down upon himself. So he died

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  41. 1 Kings 17:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

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  42. 1 Kings 17:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

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  43. 1 Kings 17:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

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  44. 1 Kings 17:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’”

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  45. 1 Kings 17:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is truth.”

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  46. 1 Kings 18:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Obadiah replied, “How have I sinned, that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to put me to death?

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  47. 1 Kings 18:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they had not found you.

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  48. 1 Kings 18:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Elijah said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will present myself to Ahab today.”

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  49. 1 Kings 18:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “I have not troubled Israel,” Elijah replied, “but you and your father’s house have, for you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and have followed the Baals.

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  50. 1 Kings 18:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Since you are so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first. Then call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.”

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