2 Kings 14:6:172 Kgs.14.6.W17TAB

כִּ֛י

ki

for

Transliteration
KI
Extended
KEE
IPA
/kiː/

Meaning by language

English
for

Alphabet Analysis

Kafk with dagesh; kh without
Hireq'ee' as in machine
Yody as in yes; marks long ī

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Word in context

  1. word

    KI

  2. clause

    ka-ka-TUV be-SE-fer to-RAT-mo-SHE a-SHER-tsi-VA Ye-ho-VAH le-MOR LO-yu-me-TU a-VOT al-ba-NIM u-va-NIM LO-yu-me-TU al-a-VOT KI im-ISH be-khe-TO ya-MUT yu-MAT

  3. sentence

    ve-ET-be-NEI ha-ma-KIM LO he-MIT ka-ka-TUV be-SE-fer to-RAT-mo-SHE a-SHER-tsi-VA Ye-ho-VAH le-MOR LO-yu-me-TU a-VOT al-ba-NIM u-va-NIM LO-yu-me-TU al-a-VOT KI im-ISH be-khe-TO ya-MUT yu-MAT

Exegesis

The limiter ki {כִּי | kî} with the exception phrase im-ish {אִם־אִישׁ | ʾim-ʾîš} introduces the sole basis for capital liability: be-cheto {בְּחֶטְאוֹ | bə-ḥeṭʾô} ‘in/for his sin’.

Root and etymology

מ־ל־א

messenger, one who is sent

In context2 Kings 14:6

But the sons of the killers he did not put to death, as written in the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, and sons shall not be put to death for fathers; but a man, for his own sin, shall die; he shall be put to death.”

About this coordinate

2 Kings 14:6:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of 2 Kings 14:6, so the Hebrew word כִּ֛י (ki) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 2 Kgs.14.6.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.14.6.W17.S1) and character.