# H3588 כִּי

כִּי (kîy), Strong’s H3588: (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed KJV: and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch…

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*kîy* — (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, +…

Occurs 4486 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=4) — God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
- [Genesis 1:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=10) — God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
- [Genesis 1:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=12) — The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after…
- [Genesis 1:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=18) — and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
- [Genesis 1:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=21) — God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their…
- [Genesis 1:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=25) — God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on…
- [Genesis 2:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=3) — God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
- [Genesis 2:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=5) — 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…
- [Genesis 2:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=17) — 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…
- [Genesis 2:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=23) — The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken…