28:21; 31:5, 7a, 7b), šmʿ ‘to hear’ (7:7; 14:22; 22:6; 23:10; 25:4, 7, 39), nḥm ‘to be sorry’ (15:11a, 35b), glh ‘to reveal’ (22:8b), ʾmr ‘to say’ (29:8a), and in 1 text the ky marks the object of a nominal clause, ‘X and Y are witnesses (ʿed) that …’ (12:5). There are roughly 158 uses of the particle in one of the “causal” senses (reason, evidence, explanation, or motivation). There is 1 text where the function of the ky simply eludes categorization, in part because the meaning of the text is apparently