H3588A–כִּי–ki

And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD 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 unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.

כִּ֤י ki “for”

When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

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

כִּ֠י ki “that”

And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?

כִּ֥י ki “that”

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

כִּי־ ki- “that”

And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.

כִּ֧י ki “for”

(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?

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 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? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֤י ki “for”

And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

כִּ֣י ki “if”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

כִּי֩ ki “for”

And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD 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 them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favorable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should 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 the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.

כִּ֤י ki “if”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.

כִּי־ ki- “that”

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

כִּ֥י ki “for”כִּ֤י ki “if”

Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”