כִּי [אם]
ki im
- that if: except
- relative conjunction
STEPBible TBESH
Glosses: that if: except
1) except if
1a) but if
1b) even though
BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Glosses: relative conjunction
כִּי אם־ different that if for if each part. retaining its independent force, and relating to aclause: same limiting except the prec. clause, if but rather but thebeing neglected, and treated as pleonastic, so that the clause is no longer a limitation of the preceding clause but a contradiction of it:, surely after an oath, (About 140 t.) the two particles being closely conjoined, and relating to theclause—