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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. 2 Kings 18:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

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  2. 2 Kings 18:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

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  3. 2 Kings 18:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; he cannot deliver you from my hand.

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  4. 2 Kings 18:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

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  5. 2 Kings 18:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’

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  6. 2 Kings 18:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

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  7. 2 Kings 18:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

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  8. 2 Kings 18:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”

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  9. 2 Kings 19:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

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  10. 2 Kings 19:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.

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  11. 2 Kings 19:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

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  12. 2 Kings 19:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”

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  13. 2 Kings 19:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

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  14. 2 Kings 20:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

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  15. 2 Kings 20:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”

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  16. 2 Kings 20:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”

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  17. 2 Kings 20:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”

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  18. 2 Kings 20:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness.

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  19. 2 Kings 22:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity.”

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  20. 2 Kings 22:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”

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  21. 2 Kings 23:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

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  22. 2 Kings 23:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    No such Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel through all the days of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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  23. 2 Kings 23:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.

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  24. 2 Kings 24:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

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  25. 2 Kings 24:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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  26. 2 Kings 25:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When all the commanders of the armies and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, as well as their men.

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  27. 2 Kings 25:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then all the people small and great, together with the commanders of the army, arose and fled to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans.

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  28. 1 Chronicles 1:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.

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  29. 1 Chronicles 2:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Sheshan had no sons, but only daughters. He also had an Egyptian servant named Jarha.

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  30. 1 Chronicles 4:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”

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  31. 1 Chronicles 4:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Meonothai was the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of those living in Ge-harashim, which was given this name because its people were craftsmen.

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  32. 1 Chronicles 4:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.

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  33. 1 Chronicles 4:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    These who were noted by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings as well as the Meunites who were there, devoting them to destruction even to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.

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  34. 1 Chronicles 5:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So he is not reckoned according to birthright.

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  35. 1 Chronicles 5:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And though Judah prevailed over his brothers and a ruler came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.

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  36. 1 Chronicles 5:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They also settled in the east as far as the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gilead.

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  37. 1 Chronicles 5:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And because they cried out to God in battle, they were helped against their enemies, and the Hagrites and all their allies were delivered into their hands. Because they put their trust in God, He answered their prayers.

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  38. 1 Chronicles 5:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    and many others fell slain, because the battle belonged to God. And they occupied the land until the exile.

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  39. 1 Chronicles 6:54 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now these were the territories assigned to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clan for their settlements, because the first lot fell to them:

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  40. 1 Chronicles 7:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In addition to them, according to their genealogy, they had 36,000 troops for battle, for they had many wives and children.

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  41. 1 Chronicles 7:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son. Ezer and Elead were killed by the natives of Gath, because they went down to steal their livestock.

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  42. 1 Chronicles 7:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And again he slept with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. So he named him Beriah, because tragedy had come upon his house.

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  43. 1 Chronicles 9:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of the house of God.

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  44. 1 Chronicles 9:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They would spend the night stationed around the house of God, because they were responsible for guarding it and opening it every morning.

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  45. 1 Chronicles 9:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Some of them were in charge of the articles used in worship, to count them whenever they were brought in or taken out.

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  46. 1 Chronicles 9:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Those who were musicians, the heads of Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other duties because they were on duty day and night.

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  47. 1 Chronicles 10:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

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  48. 1 Chronicles 10:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his own sword and died.

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  49. 1 Chronicles 10:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    When all the Israelites in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.

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  50. 1 Chronicles 11:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    saying, “Far be it from me, my God, to do this! How can I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?” Because they had brought it at the risk of their lives, David refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.

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