כִּ֤י

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 כִּ֤י

   KI

   for
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 כִּ֤י הַמַּכִּים֙

   KI ha-mak-KIM

   for the wounds or the strikings
3. clause🔊 וַיָּ֜שָׁב לְהִתְרַפֵּ֣א בְיִזְרְעֶ֗אל כִּ֤י הַמַּכִּים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִכֻּ֣הוּ בָֽרָמָ֔ה בְּהִלָּ֣חֲמ֔וֹ אֶת־חֲזָהאֵ֖ל מֶ֣לֶךְ אֲרָ֑ם

   va-ya-SHAV le-hit-rap-PE ve-yiz-re-EL KI ha-mak-KIM a-SHER hi-ku-HU va-ra-MA be-hil-la-kha-MO et-kha-za-EL ME-lekh a-RAM

   and he returned to be healed in Jezreel for the wounds or the strikings that they struck him in Ramah in his fighting with Hazael king of Aram
4. sentence🔊 וַיָּ֜שָׁב לְהִתְרַפֵּ֣א בְיִזְרְעֶ֗אל כִּ֤י הַמַּכִּים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִכֻּ֣הוּ בָֽרָמָ֔ה בְּהִלָּ֣חֲמ֔וֹ אֶת־חֲזָהאֵ֖ל מֶ֣לֶךְ אֲרָ֑ם וַעֲזַרְיָ֨הוּ בֶן־יְהוֹרָ֜ם מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֗ה יָרַ֡ד לִרְא֞וֹת אֶת־יְהוֹרָ֧ם בֶּן־אַחְאָ֛ב בְּיִזְרְעֶ֖אל כִּי־חֹלֶ֥ה הֽוּא׃

   va-ya-SHAV le-hit-rap-PE ve-yiz-re-EL KI ha-mak-KIM a-SHER hi-ku-HU va-ra-MA be-hil-la-kha-MO et-kha-za-EL ME-lekh a-RAM va-a-zar-ya-HU ven-ye-ho-RAM ME-lekh ye-hu-DA ya-RAD lir-OT et-ye-ho-RAM ben-akh-AV be-yiz-re-EL ki-kho-LE HU

   and he returned to be healed in Jezreel for the wounds or the strikings that they struck him in Ramah in his fighting with Hazael king of Aram and Azariahu son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel for he was sick or wounded he

Exegesis

The conjunction ki {כִּי | kî} introduces the causal clause, and the participle hamakim {הַמַּכִּים | ham-mak-kîm} with asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} and hiqquhu {הִכֻּּהוּ | hiq-qu-hû} forms a relative clause describing ‘those striking who struck him’.