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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 19:14: "I have been very jealous for the LORD God because the children of Israel have forsaken"
1 Kings 19:20: "and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done"
1 Kings 20:5: "Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver"
1 Kings 20:6: " Yet I will send my servants thee tomorrow about this time,"
1 Kings 20:7: "Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for"
1 Kings 20:7: "this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children,"
1 Kings 20:13: "it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD."
1 Kings 20:22: "what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria"
1 Kings 20:28: "great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD."
1 Kings 20:31: "him, Behold we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful"
1 Kings 20:41: "his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets."
1 Kings 21:2: "that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house:"
1 Kings 21:6: "And he said unto her, Because I spoke Naboth the Jezreelite, and said"
1 Kings 21:15: "And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel"
1 Kings 21:15: "he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but"
1 Kings 21:15: "Naboth is not alive, but dead."
1 Kings 21:16: "And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that was dead, that Ahab rose up"
1 Kings 21:29: "Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself me? because"
1 Kings 21:29: "Ahab humbleth himself me? because me? because he humbleth himself before"
1 Kings 22:3: "unto Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take"
1 Kings 22:8: "of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good"
1 Kings 22:8: "he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat"
1 Kings 22:18: "thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?"
1 Kings 22:31: "with small nor great, save only with the king"
1 Kings 22:33: "when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel,"
1 Kings 22:34: "and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded."
1 Kings 22:48: "for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber."
2 Kings 1:4: "that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah"
2 Kings 1:6: "from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die."
2 Kings 1:16: "come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die."
2 Kings 1:17: "of Jehoshaphat King of Judah: because he had no son."
2 Kings 2:2: "here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel."
2 Kings 2:3: "and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master"
2 Kings 2:4: "tarry I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said,"
2 Kings 2:5: "and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master"
2 Kings 2:6: "unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said,"
2 Kings 3:10: "of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three"
2 Kings 3:13: "of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these three"
2 Kings 3:14: "before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence"
2 Kings 3:17: " For thus saith the LORD, see wind, neither"
2 Kings 3:21: "And when all the Moabites heard that were come up to fight against them, they gathered all"
2 Kings 3:26: "And when the king of Moab saw that was too sore for him, he took"
2 Kings 4:1: "my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear"
2 Kings 4:2: "hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil."
2 Kings 4:9: "Behold I perceive that this is a holy man of God,"
2 Kings 4:24: "slack not thy riding for me, except I bid"
2 Kings 4:27: "of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid"
2 Kings 4:29: "my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not;"
2 Kings 4:29: "any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not"
2 Kings 4:39: "them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not."









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