H3588A–כִּי–ki

Then the Lord gave the ass the power of talking, and opening her mouth she said to Balaam, What have I done to you that you have given me blows these three times?

כִּ֣י ki “that”

And Balaam said to the ass, You have made me seem foolish: if only I had a sword in my hand I would put you to death.

כִּ֥י ki “that”כִּ֥י ki “that”

And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to me.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And the ass saw me, turning to one side from me three times: if she had not gone to one side, I would certainly have put you to death and kept her safe.

כִּ֥י ki “if”

And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have done wrong, for I did not see that you were in the way against me: but now, if it is evil in your eyes, I will go back again.

כִּ֚י ki “for”כִּ֥י ki “that”

Now Balak, hearing that Balaam had come, went to the chief town of Moab, on the edge of the Arnon, in the farthest part of the land, for the purpose of meeting him.

כִּ֣י ki “that”

From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!

כִּ֤י ki “for”

Now when Balaam saw that it was the Lord's pleasure to give his blessing to Israel, he did not, as at other times, make use of secret arts, but turning his face to the waste land,

כִּ֣י ki “that”

For they are a danger to you with their false ways, causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian, who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on you because of

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.

כִּ֣י׀ ki “for”כִּ֠י ki “for”

For the Lord had said of them, Death will certainly overtake them in the waste land. And of them all, only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, were still living.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not among those who were banded together with Korah against the Lord; but death came to him in his sin; and he had no sons.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our father's brothers.

כִּ֛י ki “for”

And say to the children of Israel, If a man has no son at the time of his death, let his heritage go to his daughter.

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

If a woman, being young and under the authority of her father, takes an oath to the Lord or gives an undertaking;

כִּֽי־ ki- “if”

But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

But if the days go on, and her husband says nothing whatever to her, then he is giving the support of his authority to her oaths and undertakings, because at the time of hearing them he said nothing to her.

כִּי־ ki- “for”

Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;

כִּ֥י ki “for”

But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua, the son of Nun: because they have been true to the Lord.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֣י ki “for”

Say to the children of Israel, When you go over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

כִּ֥י ki “if”

And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.

כִּ֥י ki “for”