Strong's Hebrew · H3588
H3588 kîy
כִּי
kee
for
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kîy appears 4,444 times in Scripture, including Genesis 1:4 and Genesis 1:10. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
In the King James Version
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.
Derivation
a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent;
Appears 4,444 times in Scripture
“but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.””
“Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.”
“Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.”
“So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good.”
“When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.”
“to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.”
“God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.”
“And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.”
“The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.”
“God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
