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 26:21: "return, David: for I will no more do thee harm, because"
1 Samuel 27:1: "of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land"
1 Samuel 27:4: "And it was told Saul that David to Gath: and he sought no"
1 Samuel 27:8: "and invaded and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old"
1 Samuel 28:1: "unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle,"
1 Samuel 28:13: "said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said"
1 Samuel 28:14: "with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face"
1 Samuel 28:20: "of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no"
1 Samuel 28:21: "unto Saul, that he was sore troubled, and said unto"
1 Samuel 28:22: "thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way."
1 Samuel 29:6: "with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil"
1 Samuel 29:8: "said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found"
1 Samuel 29:8: "with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight"
1 Samuel 29:9: "to I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel"
1 Samuel 30:6: "And David was greatly distressed; for spoke of stoning him, because"
1 Samuel 30:6: "spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved,"
1 Samuel 30:8: "shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover"
1 Samuel 30:12: "his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor"
1 Samuel 30:13: "of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three"
1 Samuel 30:17: "of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred"
1 Samuel 30:22: "us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered, save"
1 Samuel 30:24: "will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part"
1 Samuel 31:4: "and abuse me. But his armorbearer would not; for he was sore afraid."
1 Samuel 31:5: "And when his armorbearer saw that Saul he fell"
1 Samuel 31:7: "were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that"
1 Samuel 31:7: "the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook"
2 Samuel 1:5: "him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?"
2 Samuel 1:9: "I pray thee, me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life"
2 Samuel 1:9: "me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole"
2 Samuel 1:10: "So I stood upon him, and slew him, because that he could not live"
2 Samuel 1:10: "him, and slew him, because that he could not live after that he was fallen:"
2 Samuel 1:12: "and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword."
2 Samuel 1:16: "him, Thy blood thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I"
2 Samuel 1:21: "upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away,"
2 Samuel 2:7: "be strengthened, and be for your master Saul is dead,"
2 Samuel 2:26: "forever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long"
2 Samuel 2:27: "said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then"
2 Samuel 2:27: "liveth, thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people"
2 Samuel 3:9: "to Abner, also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David,"
2 Samuel 3:9: "the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do"
2 Samuel 3:13: "Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring"
2 Samuel 3:18: "Now then do it: for the LORD of David, saying,"
2 Samuel 3:22: "was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace."
2 Samuel 3:25: "Abner the son that he came to deceive thee, and to know"
2 Samuel 3:35: "God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or"
2 Samuel 3:37: "that day that it was not of the king"
2 Samuel 3:38: "his servants, ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this"
2 Samuel 4:1: "And when Saul's son heard that was dead in Hebron, his hands"
2 Samuel 4:2: "a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned"
2 Samuel 4:10: " When one told me, saying, Behold, is dead, thinking to have"
