Deuteronomy 22:23:1Deut.22.23.W1TAB

כִּי

ki

if

Transliteration
ki
Extended
kih
IPA
/ki/

Meaning by language

English
if

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. sentence

    ki yih-YEH na-a-RA ve-tu-LA me-o-ra-SA le-ISH u-me-tsa-AH ISH ba-IR ve-sha-KHAV im-MAH

Exegesis

The verse opens with the conditional conjunction ki {כִּי | kî} ‘when/if’, setting up a legal scenario.

In contextDeuteronomy 22:23

If there is a young woman, a virgin , who is betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her;

About this coordinate

Deuteronomy 22:23:1 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 1 of Deuteronomy 22:23, so the Hebrew word כִּי (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 Deut.22.23.W1, which extends further down to each syllable (Deut.22.23.W1.S1) and character.