H3588A–כִּי–ki

And when the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has slain many of us."

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest."

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”כִּ֧י ki “for”

In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in; for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

They said, "Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very fertile. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, and enter in and possess the land.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is broad; yea, God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth."

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Then the five men who had gone to spy out the country of La'ish said to their brethren, "Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, teraphim, a graven image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you will do."

כִּ֠י ki “that”

And they shouted to the Danites, who turned round and said to Micah, "What ails you that you come with such a company?"

כִּ֥י ki “that”

Then the Danites went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.

כִּי־ ki- “that”

And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any one. It was in the valley which belongs to Beth-rehob. And they rebuilt the city, and dwelt in it.

כִּ֧י ki “for”

(Now the Benjaminites heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, "Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?"

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed abomination and wantonness in Israel.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

and Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar, son of Aaron, ministered before it in those days), saying, "Shall we yet again go out to battle against our brethren the Benjaminites, or shall we cease?" And the LORD said, "Go up; for tomorrow I will give them into your hand."

כִּ֥י ki “for”

And there came against Gib'e-ah ten thousand picked men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard; but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was close upon them.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

So the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted to the men in ambush whom they had set against Gib'e-ah.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֤י ki “for”

the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to smite and kill about thirty men of Israel; they said, "Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle."

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.

כִּ֣י ki “if”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

And the people of Israel said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, "He shall be put to death."

כִּי֩ ki “for”

And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Then the elders of the congregation said, "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?"

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Yet we cannot give them wives of our daughters." For the people of Israel had sworn, "Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin."

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us; because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.'"

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֣י ki “for”

And she arose, she and her daughters-in-law, and returned from the fields of Moab; for she had heard in the fields of Moab how that Jehovah had visited his people to give them bread.

כִּ֤י ki “if”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

And they said to her, We will certainly return with thee to thy people.

כִּי־ ki- “that”

Return, my daughters, go; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, should I even have a husband to-night, and should I also bear sons,

כִּ֥י ki “for”כִּ֤י ki “if”

would ye wait on that account till they were grown? Would ye stay on that account from having husbands? No, my daughters, for I am in much more bitterness than you; for the hand of Jehovah is gone out against me.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”