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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 76 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. Amos 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

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  2. Amos 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.

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  3. Amos 4:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

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  4. Amos 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

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  5. Amos 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will have but a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

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  6. Amos 5:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

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  7. Amos 5:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

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  8. Amos 5:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

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  9. Amos 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.

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  10. Amos 5:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

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  11. Amos 5:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

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  12. Amos 6:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”

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  13. Amos 6:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”

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  14. Amos 6:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

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  15. Amos 6:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”

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  16. Amos 7:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

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  17. Amos 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

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  18. Amos 7:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”

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  19. Amos 7:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.”

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  20. Amos 7:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.

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  21. Amos 8:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

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  22. Amos 9:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.

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  23. Amos 9:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.

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  24. Obadiah 1:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.

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  25. Obadiah 1:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.

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  26. Obadiah 1:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble—Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” For the LORD has spoken.

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  27. Jonah 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”

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  28. Jonah 1:10 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What have you done?” The men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

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  29. Jonah 1:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now the sea was growing worse and worse, so they said to Jonah, “What must we do to you to calm this sea for us?”

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  30. Jonah 1:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “Pick me up,” he answered, “and cast me into the sea, so it may quiet down for you. For I know that I am to blame for this violent storm that has come upon you.”

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  31. Jonah 1:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.

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  32. Jonah 1:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”

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  33. Jonah 3:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

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  34. Jonah 4:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.

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  35. Jonah 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

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  36. Micah 1:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

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  37. Micah 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.

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  38. Micah 1:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.

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  39. Micah 1:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.

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  40. Micah 1:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Harness your chariot horses, O dweller of Lachish. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

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  41. Micah 1:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.

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  42. Micah 2:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

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  43. Micah 2:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.

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  44. Micah 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!

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  45. Micah 3:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.”

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  46. Micah 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

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  47. Micah 4:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.

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  48. Micah 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Though all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.

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  49. Micah 4:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?

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  50. Micah 4:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!

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