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:
ּ
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:
2 Samuel 19:20: "For thy servant doth know that have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come"
2 Samuel 19:21: "be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?"
2 Samuel 19:22: "What have I to do with you, ye sons that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man"
2 Samuel 19:22: "be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I"
2 Samuel 19:22: "for do not I know that I am this day king over"
2 Samuel 19:25: "And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem the king, that the king said"
2 Samuel 19:26: "O king, my servant me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass,"
2 Samuel 19:26: "and go to the king; because thy servant is lame."
2 Samuel 19:28: " For all of my father's house but dead"
2 Samuel 19:28: "of my father's house but dead men before"
2 Samuel 19:32: "of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man."
2 Samuel 19:34: "long have I to live, that I should go up with the king"
2 Samuel 19:42: "answered of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to"
2 Samuel 20:12: "And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed"
2 Samuel 20:21: "The matter is not so: but of mount Ephraim,"
2 Samuel 21:2: "were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant"
2 Samuel 22:5: " When the waves of death compassed of ungodly men made me afraid;"
2 Samuel 22:8: "moved and shook, because he was wroth."
2 Samuel 22:18: "He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for"
2 Samuel 22:20: "He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because"
2 Samuel 22:22: " For I have kept the ways of the LORD, wickedly departed from my God."
2 Samuel 22:23: " For all his judgments were before I did not depart from"
2 Samuel 22:29: " For thou art my lamp, O LORD: will lighten my darkness."
2 Samuel 22:30: " For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God over a wall."
2 Samuel 22:32: " For who is God, save and who is a rock,"
2 Samuel 23:5: " Although my house be not so God; yet he hath made"
2 Samuel 23:5: "so God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered"
2 Samuel 23:5: "ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire,"
2 Samuel 23:5: "my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow."
2 Samuel 23:6: "shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:"
2 Samuel 23:10: "arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand"
2 Samuel 23:19: " Was he not most honorable of three? their captain: howbeit he attained not"
2 Samuel 24:10: "the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly."
2 Samuel 24:14: "now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall"
2 Samuel 24:24: "unto Araunah, but I will surely buy it of"
1 Kings 1:11: "saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign,"
1 Kings 1:13: "swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after"
1 Kings 1:17: "thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after"
1 Kings 1:25: " For he is gone down this day, and hath slain and fat cattle and sheep in abundance,"
1 Kings 1:30: " Even as I swore unto thee by the LORD of Israel, saying, Assuredly"
1 Kings 1:30: "of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after"
1 Kings 1:30: "upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day."
1 Kings 1:42: "and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings."
1 Kings 2:7: "and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled"
1 Kings 2:9: "Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou man, and knowest"
1 Kings 2:15: "And he said, Thou knowest that was mine, and that all Israel"
1 Kings 2:15: "is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD."
1 Kings 2:17: "I pray thee, unto Solomon (for he will not say thee nay,)"
1 Kings 2:20: "thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not"
1 Kings 2:22: "ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother;"
