Leviticus 20:3:10Lev.20.3.W10TAB

כִּ֤י

ki

because

Transliteration
KI
Extended
KEE
IPA
/kiː/

Meaning by language

English
because

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. phraseyour reading level

    KI miz-zar-O

  3. clause

    KI miz-zar-O na-TAN la-MO-lekh le-MA-an ta-ME et-mik-da-SHI u-le-kha-LEL et-SHEM kad-SHI

  4. sentence

    va-a-NI e-TEN et-pa-NAI ba-ISH ha-HU ve-hikh-ra-TEE o-TO mi-KE-REV am-MO KI miz-zar-O na-TAN la-MO-lekh le-MA-an ta-ME et-mik-da-SHI u-le-kha-LEL et-SHEM kad-SHI

Exegesis

The conjunction kî {כִּי | kî} introduces the rationale in which nāṯān {נָתַן | nāṯān} ‘he gave’ with min-zarʿô {מִזַּרְעוֹ | min-zarʿô} ‘from his offspring’ to la-mōleḵ {לַמֹּלֶךְ | la-mōleḵ} ‘to Molekh’ specifies the idolatrous act.

In contextLeviticus 20:3

I will set my face against that man and will cut him off from the midst of his people because he gave some of his offspring to Molekh to defile my sanctuary and to profane my holy name.

About this coordinate

Leviticus 20:3:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Leviticus 20:3, so the Hebrew word כִּ֤י (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 Lev.20.3.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Lev.20.3.W10.S1) and character.