H9004–/כ–k

I said, I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof: Let thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, And the smell of thy breath like apples,

כְּאֶשְׁכְּל֣וֹת (כְּ) ke. “like”כַּתַּפּוּחִֽים׃ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

And thy mouth like the best wine, That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of those that are asleep.

כְּיֵ֥ין (כְּ) ke. “like”

Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! [ergänzt: When] I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; Yea, and none would despise me.

כְּאָ֣ח (כְּ) ke. “like”

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah.

כַֽחוֹתָ֜ם (כַֽ) kha. “like <the>”כַּֽחוֹתָם֙ (כַּֽ) ka. “like <the>”כַמָּ֙וֶת֙ (כַ) kha. “like <the>”כִשְׁא֖וֹל (כִ) khi “like”

I am a wall, and my breasts like the towers [ergänzt: thereof] Then was I in his eyes as one that found peace.

כַּמִּגְדָּל֑וֹת (כַּ) ka. “[are] like <the>”כְּמוֹצְאֵ֥ת (כְּ) ke. “like”

Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֥ת (כְּ) ke. “[is] like”

And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

כְּסֻכָּ֣ה (כְּ) ke. “like”כִּמְלוּנָ֥ה (כִּ) ki “like”כְּעִ֥יר (כְּ) ke. “like”

Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

כִּמְעָ֑ט (כִּ) ki “like”כִּסְדֹ֣ם (כִּ) ki “like”

Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

כַּשָּׁנִים֙ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כַּשֶּׁ֣לֶג (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כַתּוֹלָ֖ע (כַ) kha. “like <the>”כַּצֶּ֥מֶר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

and I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin;

כַּבֹּ֖ר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town.

כְּבָרִ֣אשֹׁנָ֔ה (כְּ) ke. “as”כְּבַתְּחִלָּ֑ה (כְּ) ke. “as”

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

כְּאֵלָ֖ה (כְּ) ke. “like”וּֽכְגַנָּ֔ה (כְ) khe. “like”

For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled [ergänzt: with customs] from the east, and [ergänzt: are] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

כַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים (כַּ) ka. “like the”

The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.

כִּסְדֹ֥ם (כִּ) ki “like”

Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.

כְּדָבְרָ֑ם (כְּ) ke. “like”

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;

וְכַעֲב֥וֹת (כַ) kha. “like”

Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

כֶּאֱכֹ֨ל (כֶּ) ke. “as”כַּמָּ֣ק (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כָּאָבָ֣ק (כָּ) ka. “like <the>”

Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

כַּסּוּחָ֖ה (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind:

כַּצַּ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”כַּסּוּפָֽה׃ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.

כַּלָּבִ֑יא (כַּ) ka. “[is] like <the>”כַּכְּפִירִ֤ים (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness [ergänzt: and] distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.

כְּנַהֲמַת־ (כְּ) ke. “like”

And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.

כָּאֵלָ֣ה (כָּ) ka. “like <the>”וְכָאַלּ֗וֹן (כָ) kha. “like <the>”

And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.

כְּנ֥וֹעַ (כְּ) ke. “as”

For Jehovah spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

כְּחֶזְקַ֣ת (כְּ) ke. “according to”

To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

כַּדָּבָ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “according to the”