H9004–/כ–k

When Ephraim speaketh tremblingly, He hath been lifted up in Israel, When he becometh guilty in Baal he dieth.

כְּדַבֵּ֤ר (כְּ) ke. “when”

And now do they add to sin, And make to them a molten image of their silver, By their own understanding -- idols, A work of artizans -- all of it, Of them they say, who `are' sacrificers among men, `The calves let them kiss.'

כִּתְבוּנָם֙ (כִּ) ki “according to”

Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window.

כַּעֲנַן־ (כַּ) ka. “like”וְכַטַּ֖ל (כַ) kha. “like <the>”כְּמֹץ֙ (כְּ) ke. “like”וּכְעָשָׁ֖ן (כְ) khe. “like”

According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,

כְּמַרְעִיתָם֙ (כְּ) ke. “according to”

And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out.

כְּנָמֵ֖ר (כְּ) ke. “like”

I do meet them as a bereaved bear, And I rend the enclosure of their heart.

כְּדֹ֣ב (כְּ) ke. “like”כְּלָבִ֔יא (כְּ) ke. “like”

I am as dew to Israel, he flourisheth as a lily, And he striketh forth his roots as Lebanon.

כַטַּל֙ (כַ) kha. “like the”כַּשּֽׁוֹשַׁנָּ֑ה (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כַּלְּבָנֽוֹן׃ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

Go on do his sucklings, And his beauty is as an olive, And he hath fragrance as Lebanon.

כַזַּ֖יִת (כַ) kha. “like <the>”כַּלְּבָנֽוֹן׃ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

Return do the dwellers under his shadow, They revive `as' corn, and flourish as a vine, His memorial `is' as wine of Lebanon.

כַגָּ֑פֶן (כַ) kha. “like <the>”כְּיֵ֥ין (כְּ) ke. “[will be] like”

O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I -- I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: `I `am' as a green fir-tree,' From Me is thy fruit found.

כִּבְר֣וֹשׁ (כִּ) ki “[am] like”

Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.

כִּבְתוּלָ֥ה (כִּ) ki “like”

And cry unto Jehovah, `Alas for the day! For near `is' a day of Jehovah, And as destruction from the mighty it cometh.

וּכְשֹׁ֖ד (כְ) khe. “like”

A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again -- till the years of generation and generation.

כְּשַׁ֖חַר (כְּ) ke. “like”

Before it consumed hath fire, And after it burn doth a flame, As the garden of Eden `is' the land before it, And after it a wilderness -- a desolation! And also an escape there hath not been to it,

כְּגַן־ (כְּ) ke. “[is] like”

As the appearance of horses `is' its appearance, And as horsemen, so they run.

כְּמַרְאֵ֥ה (כְּ) ke. “[is] like”וּכְפָרָשִׁ֖ים (כְ) khe. “like”

As the noise of chariots, on the tops of the mountains they skip, As the noise of a flame of fire devouring stubble, As a mighty people set in array for battle.

כְּק֣וֹל (כְּ) ke. “like”כְּקוֹל֙ (כְּ) ke. “like”כְּעַ֣ם (כְּ) ke. “like”

As mighty ones they run, As men of war they go up a wall, And each in his own ways they do go, And they embarrass not their paths.

כְּגִבּוֹרִ֣ים (כְּ) ke. “like”כְּאַנְשֵׁ֥י (כְּ) ke. “like”

In the city they run to and fro, On the wall they run, Into houses they go up by the windows, They go in as a thief.

כַּגַּנָּֽב׃ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

And it hath come to pass, Every one who calleth in the name of Jehovah is delivered, For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there is an escape, As Jehovah hath said, And among the remnants whom Jehovah is calling!

כַּֽאֲשֶׁר֙ (כַּֽ) ka. “just”

And I -- I have destroyed the Amorite from before them, Whose height `is' as the height of cedars, And strong he `is' as the oaks, And I destroy his fruit from above, And his roots from beneath.

כְּגֹ֤בַהּ (כְּ) ke. “[was] like”כָּֽאַלּוֹנִ֑ים (כָּֽ) ka. “like <the>”

Lo, I am pressing you under, As the full cart doth press for itself a sheaf.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

Thus said Jehovah: As the shepherd delivereth from the lion's mouth Two legs, or a piece of an ear, So delivered are the sons of Israel, Who are sitting in Samaria on the corner of a bed, And in Damascus `on that of' a couch.

כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ (כַּ) ka. “just”

I have overturned among you, Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, And ye are as a brand delivered from a burning, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֤ת (כְּ) ke. “like”כְּא֖וּד (כְּ) ke. “like”

Seek ye Jehovah, and live, Lest He prosper as fire `against' the house of Joseph, And it hath consumed, And there is no quencher for Beth-El.

כָּאֵשׁ֙ (כָּ) ka. “like <the>”

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live, And it is so; Jehovah, God of Hosts, `is' with you, as ye said.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “just”