כִּי (kî ʿal kēn) is a Hebrew conjunction meaning that. It appears 4488 times in 39 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3588).

Also rendered

• relative conjunction
• forasmuch as
• for

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 976)

Root family 976: כִי kî — as though, as, because that, but, certainly, except, for, surely, since, that, then, when, etc. (ASV and RSV similar.)

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