Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H3588: כִּי (kîy) Definition

Strong's number
H3588
Lemma
כִּי
Transliteration
kîy
Pronunciation
kee
Strong's definition
(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. a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent;

3910 instances of the word כִּי kîy (H3588)


  • 1 Samuel 26:16 - is not good This thing that thou hast done liveth As the LORD ye are worthy to die because ye have not kept your master anointed As the LORD And now see spear where the king's is and the cruse of water that was at his bolster

  • 1 Samuel 26:18 - And he said Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant for what have I done is in mine hand or what evil

  • 1 Samuel 26:19 - hear Now therefore I pray thee let my lord the king the words of his servant If the LORD have stirred thee up against me let him accept an offering but if they be the children of men cursed be they before If the LORD for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance If the LORD saying serve gods other

  • 1 Samuel 26:20 - fall Now therefore let not my blood to the earth before the face of the LORD is come out for the king of Israel to seek flea a as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains

  • 1 Samuel 26:21 - Then said Saul I have sinned return my son David for I will no more do thee harm was precious because my soul in thine eyes this day behold I have played the fool and have erred exceedingly

  • 1 Samuel 27:1 - said And David in his heart I shall now perish day one by the hand and Saul there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily I should speedily into the land of the Philistines shall despair and Saul of me to seek me any more in any coast of Israel I should speedily by the hand

  • 1 Samuel 27:4 - And it was told Saul was fled that David to Gath no more again and he sought

  • 1 Samuel 27:8 - went up And David and his men and invaded the Geshurites and the Gezrites and the Amalekites for those the inhabitants even unto the land nations were of old as thou goest to Shur even unto the land of Egypt

  • 1 Samuel 28:1 - And it came to pass in those days gathered that the Philistines their armies for warfare to fight with Israel said And Achish unto David Know Know that thou shalt go out their armies

  • 1 Samuel 28:13 - said And the king unto her Be not afraid I saw said thou And the woman unto Saul gods I saw ascending out of the earth

  • 1 Samuel 28:14 - And he said unto her What form And he said man An old cometh up and he is covered with a mantle perceived And Saul that it was Samuel and he stooped with his face to the ground and bowed

  • 1 Samuel 28:20 - straightway Then Saul fell all along on the earth afraid and was sore because of the words of Samuel and there was no strength in him for he had eaten no bread all the day nor all the night

  • 1 Samuel 28:21 - came And the woman unto Saul and saw troubled that he was sore and said and have hearkened unto him Behold thine handmaid thy voice and I have put my life in my hand and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest

  • 1 Samuel 28:22 - Now therefore I pray thee hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid and let me set before a morsel of bread thee and eat that thou mayest have strength on thy way

  • 1 Samuel 29:6 - called Then Achish David and said liveth unto him Surely as the LORD thou hast been upright favour in my sight and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host for I have not found evil in thee since the day and thy coming in in thee since the day in my sight nevertheless the lords favour

  • 1 Samuel 29:8 - said And David unto Achish But what have I done and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee so long as that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king

  • 1 Samuel 29:9 - answered And Achish and said to David I know that thou art good in my sight as an angel of God notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines and said He shall not go up with us to the battle

  • 1 Samuel 30:6 - distressed And David was greatly spake for the people of stoning was grieved him because the soul for the people every man for his sons and for his daughters encouraged And David himself in the LORD his God

  • 1 Samuel 30:8 - enquired And David at the LORD saying Shall I pursue after this troop for thou shalt surely saying Shall I pursue for thou shalt surely for thou shalt surely recover recover

  • 1 Samuel 30:12 - And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins and when he had eaten came again his spirit and when he had eaten no bread nor drunk any water and three days and three nights