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; who slew many of us.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Then said Micah, Now I know that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for 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 for themselves an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day all their inheritance had not fallen to 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 to 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 on the earth.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Then answered the five men that went to explore the country of Laish, and said to 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 to the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said to Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?

כִּ֥י ki “that”

And the children of Dan departed: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to 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 Beth-rehob. And they built a city and dwelt in it.

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 thy hand.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe: 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 Benjaminites, because they trusted to 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 had 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 to 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 for Benjamin, because 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”

But, 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 to us to complain, that we will say to them, Be favorable to them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give to 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 to her, surely we will return with thee to thy 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 have a husband also to-night, and should also bear sons;

כִּ֥י ki “for”כִּ֤י ki “if”

Would ye wait for them till they should be 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 has gone out against me.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”