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

STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

TBESH · H3588B

כִּי [אם] · ki im · that if: except

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

STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

TBESH · H3588C

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

STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

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.

Open Scriptures transcription · CC BY-SA

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 62 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.

Isaiah 65:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.
Read word by word
Isaiah 65:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
Read word by word
Isaiah 65:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.
Read word by word
Isaiah 65:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them.
Read word by word
Isaiah 66:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who has heard of such as this? Who has seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.
Read word by word
Isaiah 66:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.
Read word by word
Isaiah 66:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.
Read word by word
Isaiah 66:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.
Read word by word
Isaiah 66:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.
Read word by word
Isaiah 66:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”
Read word by word
Jeremiah 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
Read word by word
Jeremiah 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 1:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”
Read word by word
Jeremiah 1:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 1:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:
Read word by word
Jeremiah 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 2:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 2:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 2:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 2:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
Read word by word
Jeremiah 2:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
Read word by word
Jeremiah 2:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’
Read word by word
Jeremiah 2:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 2:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
Read word by word
Jeremiah 2:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Read word by word
Jeremiah 2:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”
Read word by word
Jeremiah 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 3:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 3:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 3:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 3:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 3:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 3:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
Read word by word
Jeremiah 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 4:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 4:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”
Read word by word
Jeremiah 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!
Read word by word
Jeremiah 4:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For a voice resounds from Dan, proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 4:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
Read word by word
Jeremiah 4:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 4:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 4:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
Read word by word
Jeremiah 4:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
Read word by word
Jeremiah 4:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”
Read word by word

Sources and text

Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). STEPBible data · License.

We convert source tables to JSON, expand grammar labels and count tagged words. Greek counts use the SBL edition in TAGNT. Hebrew counts use the main reading in TAHOT, including Qere readings and restored text. Source numbering follows NRSV; alternate references appear where supplied.

Berean Standard Bible translation tables, public domain, Berean Bible. CrossWire KJV 3.1 , public domain text with Bible Foundation and KJV2003 Project tags, licensed for any purpose. Dodson Greek Lexicon , CC0. Strong’s Hebrew dictionary , Open Scriptures transcription, CC BY-SA; converted Hebrew entries retain those terms. Greek pronunciation spellings come from Strong's Greek dictionary, XML edition 1.4 , public domain.

Open in Berean Blue