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:
Genesis 45:3: "could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence."
Genesis 45:5: "nor with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God"
Genesis 45:5: "that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life."
Genesis 45:6: " For these two years hath the famine the land: and yet there are five"
Genesis 45:8: "you that sent but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh,"
Genesis 45:11: "And there will I nourish thee; for yet years of famine; lest"
Genesis 45:12: "and the eyes Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto"
Genesis 45:20: "Also regard not your stuff; for of all the land"
Genesis 45:26: "of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not."
Genesis 46:3: "not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great"
Genesis 46:30: "I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive."
Genesis 46:32: "And the men are shepherds, for their trade to feed cattle; and they have brought"
Genesis 46:33: "And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call What is your occupation?"
Genesis 46:34: "that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd"
Genesis 47:4: "For to sojourn are we come; for thy servants have no pasture"
Genesis 47:4: "thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land"
Genesis 47:13: "bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land"
Genesis 47:15: "Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth."
Genesis 47:18: "hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord"
Genesis 47:20: "of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field,"
Genesis 47:20: "sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land"
Genesis 47:22: "of the priests bought for the priests had a portion assigned them of"
Genesis 48:14: "Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn."
Genesis 48:17: "And when Joseph saw that his father his right hand upon"
Genesis 48:18: "so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand"
Genesis 49:4: "as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then"
Genesis 49:6: "mine honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will"
Genesis 49:7: "Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; for it was cruel: I will divide"
Genesis 49:7: "for it was fierce; for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter"
Genesis 49:10: "from Judah, from between his feet, until until Shiloh"
Genesis 49:15: "And he saw that rest was good, that it was pleasant; and bowed"
Genesis 49:15: "rest was good, that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear,"
Genesis 50:3: "And forty days were fulfilled for him; for are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed:"
Genesis 50:15: "And when Joseph's brethren saw that was dead, they said, Joseph"
Genesis 50:17: "the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee,"
Genesis 50:19: "unto them, Fear for am I in the place of God?"
Exodus 1:10: "with them; lest they multiply, that, when there falleth out any war, they join"
Exodus 1:19: "said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women;"
Exodus 1:19: "are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere"
Exodus 1:21: "And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses."
Exodus 2:2: "and bore a son: him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three"
Exodus 2:10: "his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water."
Exodus 2:12: "this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew"
Exodus 2:22: "Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange"
Exodus 3:4: "And when the LORD saw that he turned aside God called unto"
Exodus 3:5: "put off from off thy feet, for the place whereon"
Exodus 3:6: "And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon"
Exodus 3:7: "and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know"
Exodus 3:11: "God, am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that"
Exodus 3:11: "I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel"
