H3588A–כִּי–ki

Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

But the number of people is great, and it is a time of much rain; it is not possible for us to go on waiting outside, and this is not a thing which may be done in one day or even two: for our sin in this business is great.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;

כִּי־ ki- “that”

Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”כִּי־ ki- “that”

And when it came to the ears of those who were against us, that we had knowledge of their designs and that God had made their purpose come to nothing, we all went back to the wall, everyone to his work

כִּי־ ki- “that”

Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways

כִּ֤י ki “that”

Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, they are only a fiction you have made up yourself.

כִּ֥י ki “that”

For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

And I went to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us have a meeting in the house of God, inside the Temple, and let the doors be shut: for they will come to put you to death; truly, in the ni

כִּ֚י ki “for”

Then it became clear to me that God had not sent him: he had given this word of a prophet against me himself: and Tobiah and Sanballat had given him money to do so.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

And when our haters had news of this, all the nations round about us were full of fear and were greatly shamed, for they saw that this work had been done by our God.

כִּ֚י ki “that”

For in Judah there were a number of people who had made an agreement by oath with him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah, the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken as his wife the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.

כִּי־ ki- “for”כִּי־ ki- “for”

I made my brother Hanani, and Hananiah, the ruler of the tower, responsible for the government of Jerusalem: for he was a man of good faith, fearing God more than most.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

And Ezra took the book, opening it before the eyes of all the people (for he was higher than the people); and when it was open, all the people got to their feet:

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping o

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is yo

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

All the people who had been prisoners and had come back, made tents and were living in them: for from the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, till that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great joy.

כִּ֣י ki “for”