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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 Kings 2:23: "so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this"
1 Kings 2:26: "thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not"
1 Kings 2:26: "at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear the ark of the Lord"
1 Kings 2:26: "before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father"
1 Kings 2:28: "came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah,"
1 Kings 2:29: "And it was told king Solomon that was fled unto the tabernacle"
1 Kings 2:30: "Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought"
1 Kings 2:37: "Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be"
1 Kings 2:41: "And it was told Solomon that Shimei from Jerusalem to Gath,"
1 Kings 2:42: "thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst"
1 Kings 3:2: "the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name"
1 Kings 3:4: "to Gibeon to sacrifice for that was the great high place: a thousand"
1 Kings 3:9: "between good and bad: for who is able to judge this"
1 Kings 3:10: "And the speech pleased the Lord, that had asked"
1 Kings 3:22: "woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son."
1 Kings 3:22: "And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son."
1 Kings 3:23: "and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living."
1 Kings 3:26: "was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son,"
1 Kings 3:28: "had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that"
1 Kings 3:28: "and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God"
1 Kings 4:24: " For he had dominion over all the river, from Tiphsah"
1 Kings 5:1: "his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king"
1 Kings 5:1: "Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father:"
1 Kings 5:1: "him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever"
1 Kings 5:3: "Thou knowest how that my father could not"
1 Kings 5:6: "according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not"
1 Kings 5:6: "for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew"
1 Kings 6:6: "was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests"
1 Kings 8:7: " For the cherubims spread forth their two wings the place of the ark, and the cherubims"
1 Kings 8:11: "because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled"
1 Kings 8:18: "to build a house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart."
1 Kings 8:19: "shalt not build but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins,"
1 Kings 8:27: " But will God indeed dwell the earth? behold, the heaven"
1 Kings 8:27: "of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less thee; how much less this house that"
1 Kings 8:35: "and there is no because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this"
1 Kings 8:35: "thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest"
1 Kings 8:36: "of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good"
1 Kings 8:37: " If there be in the land famine, there be pestilence, blasting,"
1 Kings 8:37: "there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew,"
1 Kings 8:37: "blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy"
1 Kings 8:37: "or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities;"
1 Kings 8:39: "heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest"
1 Kings 8:42: " (For they shall hear of thy great and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out"
1 Kings 8:43: "thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have built,"
1 Kings 8:44: " If thy people go out to battle their enemy, whithersoever"
1 Kings 8:46: " If they sin against thee, (for there is no that sinneth not,)"
1 Kings 8:46: "If they sin against thee, (for there is no that sinneth not,)"
1 Kings 8:51: " For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, thou broughtest forth out of Egypt,"
1 Kings 8:53: " For thou didst separate them from among all of the earth, to be thine inheritance,"
1 Kings 8:60: "the people of the earth that the LORD is God, and that there is none else."









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