Strong's #3588: kiy (pronounced kee)
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:--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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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kı̂y
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
Part of Speech: conjunction
Relation: a primitive particle
Usage:
This word is used 4454 times:
1 Samuel 12:19: "thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins"
1 Samuel 12:21: "And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain cannot profit"
1 Samuel 12:21: "cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain."
1 Samuel 12:22: " For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's"
1 Samuel 12:22: "for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people."
1 Samuel 12:24: "him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done"
1 Samuel 13:6: "When the men of Israel saw that (for the people were distressed,)"
1 Samuel 13:6: "saw that (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves"
1 Samuel 13:11: "hast thou done? said, Because I saw that the people were scattered"
1 Samuel 13:11: "said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from"
1 Samuel 13:13: "thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established"
1 Samuel 13:14: "him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which"
1 Samuel 13:19: "throughout all of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews"
1 Samuel 14:3: "And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone."
1 Samuel 14:6: "it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save"
1 Samuel 14:10: "Come up us; then we will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this"
1 Samuel 14:12: "unto his armorbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered"
1 Samuel 14:18: "Bring hither of God. For the ark of God was at that"
1 Samuel 14:22: "Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also"
1 Samuel 14:26: "his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath."
1 Samuel 14:29: "the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted"
1 Samuel 14:29: "how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey."
1 Samuel 14:30: "How much more, How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely"
1 Samuel 14:30: "How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely"
1 Samuel 14:30: "had eaten freely of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for"
1 Samuel 14:39: " For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though"
1 Samuel 14:39: "which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son,"
1 Samuel 14:44: "and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan."
1 Samuel 14:45: "one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God"
1 Samuel 15:11: "It repenteth me that I have set up to be king: for he is turned back"
1 Samuel 15:11: "to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not"
1 Samuel 15:23: " For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, is as iniquity and idolatry. Because"
1 Samuel 15:24: "unto Samuel, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD,"
1 Samuel 15:24: "the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed"
1 Samuel 15:26: "return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD,"
1 Samuel 15:29: "nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent."
1 Samuel 15:35: "until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul:"
1 Samuel 15:35: "Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over"
1 Samuel 16:1: "and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king"
1 Samuel 16:7: "or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as"
1 Samuel 16:7: "of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth;"
1 Samuel 16:7: "as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD"
1 Samuel 16:11: "Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come"
1 Samuel 16:12: "said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he."
1 Samuel 16:22: "I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favor in my sight."
1 Samuel 17:25: "man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up:"
1 Samuel 17:26: "the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised"
1 Samuel 17:26: "who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living"
1 Samuel 17:28: "thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle."
1 Samuel 17:33: "Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man"
