H3588A–כִּי–ki

For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

And if a Levite shall come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD shall choose;

וְכִֽי־ (כִֽי) khi- “if”

When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

כִּ֤י ki “if”

For all that do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened to observers of times, and to diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

כִּ֣י׀ ki “for”

And if thou shalt say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

וְכִ֥י (כִ֥י) Khi “if”

When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

Lest the avenger of blood shall pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

כִּי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּ֠י ki “for”

If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, besides these three:

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

But if any man shall hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally, that he dieth, and he shall flee into one of these cities:

וְכִֽי־ (כִֽי) khi- “if”

If a false witness shall rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

When thou goest out to battle against thy enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

When thou comest nigh to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

But thou shalt utterly destroy them, namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

When thou shalt besiege a city a long time in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees of it by forcing an ax against them; for thou mayest eat of them: and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”כִּ֚י ki “for”כִּ֤י ki “for”

Only the trees which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it shall be subdued.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

If one shall be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:

כִּי־ ki- “if”

And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near (for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD) and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried;

כִּ֣י ki “for”

So shalt thou remove the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

When thou goest forth to war against thy enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thy hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

If a man shall have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated:

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the first-born, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

כִּי֩ ki “that”כִּי־ ki- “for”

If a man shall have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not hearken to them:

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

And if a man shall have committed a sin worthy of death, and he must be put to death, and thou shalt hang him on a tree:

וְכִֽי־ (כִֽי) khi- “if”