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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. Isaiah 30:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

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  2. Isaiah 30:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; He will strike them with His scepter.

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  3. Isaiah 30:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

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  4. Isaiah 31:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.

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  5. Isaiah 31:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.

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  6. Isaiah 31:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.

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  7. Isaiah 32:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.

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  8. Isaiah 32:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

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  9. Isaiah 32:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

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  10. Isaiah 32:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

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  11. Isaiah 33:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

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  12. Isaiah 33:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.

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  13. Isaiah 33:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.

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  14. Isaiah 34:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.

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  15. Isaiah 34:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.

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  16. Isaiah 34:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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  17. Isaiah 34:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

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  18. Isaiah 34:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.

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  19. Isaiah 35:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

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  20. Isaiah 36:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

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  21. Isaiah 36:7 · 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’?

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  22. Isaiah 36:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  23. Isaiah 36:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.

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  24. Isaiah 36:16 · 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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  25. Isaiah 36:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  26. Isaiah 36:20 · 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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  27. Isaiah 36:21 · 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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  28. Isaiah 37:3 · 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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  29. Isaiah 37:8 · 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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  30. Isaiah 37:19 · 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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  31. Isaiah 37:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And now, O LORD our God, 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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  32. Isaiah 37:32 · 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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  33. Isaiah 38:1 · 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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  34. Isaiah 38:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

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  35. Isaiah 38:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

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  36. Isaiah 38:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”

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  37. Isaiah 39:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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 and recovery.

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  38. Isaiah 39:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “At least there will be peace and security in my lifetime.”

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  39. Isaiah 40:2 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”

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  40. Isaiah 40:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

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  41. Isaiah 40:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

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  42. Isaiah 41:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

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  43. Isaiah 41:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For I am the LORD your God, who takes hold of your right hand and tells you: Do not fear, I will help you.

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  44. Isaiah 41:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    so that all may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it.”

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  45. Isaiah 41:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay.

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  46. Isaiah 42:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?

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  47. Isaiah 43:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But now, this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

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  48. Isaiah 43:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.

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  49. Isaiah 43:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place.

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  50. Isaiah 43:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west.

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