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:
Jonah 1:12: "so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that"
Jonah 1:12: "unto you: for I know that for my sake this great"
Jonah 1:13: "but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against"
Jonah 1:14: "upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as"
Jonah 3:10: "saw their works, that they turned from their evil way;"
Jonah 4:2: "Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou"
Jonah 4:2: "before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God,"
Jonah 4:3: "my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
Micah 1:3: " For, behold, the LORD cometh forth and will come down, and tread"
Micah 1:7: "the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of a harlot,"
Micah 1:9: " For her wound is incurable; for unto Judah; he is come"
Micah 1:9: "For her wound is incurable; for unto Judah; he is come"
Micah 1:12: " For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully but evil came down"
Micah 1:12: "of Maroth waited carefully but evil came down from"
Micah 1:13: "of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found"
Micah 1:16: "enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from"
Micah 2:1: "when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand."
Micah 2:3: "your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil."
Micah 2:10: "Arise ye, and depart; for this your rest: because it is polluted,"
Micah 3:7: "cover their lips; for there is no answer of God."
Micah 4:2: "us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion,"
Micah 4:4: "his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken"
Micah 4:5: " For all people will walk in the name of his god, and we"
Micah 4:9: "king in thee? is thy counselor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail."
Micah 4:10: "O daughter of Zion, for now shalt thou go forth out of the city,"
Micah 4:12: "neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor."
Micah 4:13: "and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make"
Micah 5:4: "of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends"
Micah 5:5: "And this man shall be the peace, when shall come into our land: and when"
Micah 5:5: "shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against"
Micah 5:6: "thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth"
Micah 5:6: "when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders."
Micah 6:2: "and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people,"
Micah 6:4: " For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, thee out of the house"
Micah 6:8: "doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love"
Micah 7:1: "Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no"
Micah 7:6: " For the son dishonoreth the father, riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law"
Micah 7:8: "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I shall arise; when I sit"
Micah 7:8: "when I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light"
Micah 7:9: "I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because against him, until he plead my cause,"
Micah 7:18: "he retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy."
Nahum 1:10: " For while they be folded together as thorns, as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble"
Nahum 1:14: "will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile."
Nahum 1:15: "thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more"
Nahum 2:2: " For the LORD hath turned away of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel:"
Nahum 2:2: "of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches."
Nahum 3:19: "of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness"
Habakkuk 1:4: "is slacked, and judgment go forth: for the wicked doth compass about"
Habakkuk 1:5: "ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days,"
Habakkuk 1:5: "a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told"
