H3588A–כִּי–ki

When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, Our god has delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my 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 sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day [supplied: their] inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

They said, Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are you still? don't be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

When you go, you shall come to a people secure, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.

כִּ֠י ki “that”

They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, What ails you, that you come with such a company?

כִּ֥י ki “that”

The children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.

כִּי־ ki- “that”

There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived therein.

כִּ֧י ki “for”

(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

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 lewdness and folly in Israel.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they didn't know that evil was close on them.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted to the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֤י ki “for”

The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them.

כִּ֣י ki “if”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

The children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh? For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

The people repented them for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.

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

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.

כִּ֤י ki “if”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

They said to her, No, but we will return with you to your people.

כִּי־ ki- “that”

Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;

כִּ֥י ki “for”כִּ֤י ki “if”

would you therefore wait until they were grown? would you therefore stay from having husbands? nay, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of Yahweh is gone forth against me.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”