{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3588",
  "lemma": "כִּי",
  "transliteration": "kîy",
  "definition": "(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed",
  "kjv": "and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, +…",
  "occurrences": 4486,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "כִּי conj. that, for, when",
    "1. that",
    "a. Of time, when, of the past",
    "b. elsewhere כִּי has a force approximating to if, though it usu. represents a case as more likely to occur than אִם",
    "c. when or if, with a concessive force, i.e. though",
    "3. Because, since",
    "כִּי אם־",
    "כִּי אם־",
    "1. each part. retaining its independent force, and relating to a different clause:",
    "a. that if",
    "b. for if",
    "2. (About 140 t.) the two particles being closely conjoined, and relating to the same clause—",
    "a. limiting the prec. clause, except",
    "b. the if being neglected, and treated as pleonastic, so that the clause is no longer a limitation of the preceding clause but a contradiction of it: but rather, but",
    "c. after an oath, surely",
    "כִּי עַל כֵּן",
    "כִּי עַל כֵּן forasmuch as"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:4",
      "text": "God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:10",
      "text": "God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:12",
      "text": "The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:18",
      "text": "and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:21",
      "text": "God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:25",
      "text": "God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:3",
      "text": "God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:5",
      "text": "No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:17",
      "text": "but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:23",
      "text": "The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=23"
    }
  ],
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