H9004–/כ–k

I said, I will go up to the palm-tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; And thy breasts shall indeed be like clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy nose like apples,

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

And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, ... That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, And stealeth over the lips of them that are asleep.

כְּיֵ֥ין (כְּ) ke. “like”

Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! Should I find thee without, I would kiss thee; And they would not 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, Flames of Jah.

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 towers; Then was I in his eyes as one that findeth peace.

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

Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up 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 night-lodge in a cucumber-garden, as a besieged city.

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

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

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

Come now, 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 will thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thine alloy;

כַּבֹּ֖ר (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning. Afterwards thou shalt be called, Town of righteousness, Faithful city.

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

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

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

For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled [ergänzt: with what comes] from the east, and use auguries like the Philistines, and ally themselves with the children of foreigners.

כַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים (כַּ) ka. “like the”

The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves.

כִּסְדֹ֥ם (כִּ) ki “like”

And the lambs shall feed as on their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

כְּדָבְרָ֑ם (כְּ) ke. “like”

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-ropes!

וְכַעֲב֥וֹת (כַ) kha. “like”

Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for 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 out his hand against them and hath smitten them; and the mountains trembled, and their carcases are become as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.

כַּסּוּחָ֖ה (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

their arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are reckoned as the flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind.

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

Their roaring is like a lioness, they roar as the young lions; yea, they growl, and snatch the prey, and carry it away safe, and there is 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 upon the earth, behold darkness [ergänzt: and] distress, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

כְּנַהֲמַת־ (כְּ) ke. “like”

But a tenth part shall still be therein, and it shall return and be eaten; as the terebinth and as the oak whose trunk [ergänzt: remaineth] after the felling: the holy seed shall be the trunk thereof.

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

And it was told the house of David saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim. Then his heart and the heart of his people shook, as the trees of the forest are shaken with the wind.

כְּנ֥וֹעַ (כְּ) ke. “as”

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

כְּחֶזְקַ֣ת (כְּ) ke. “according to”

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

כַּדָּבָ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “according to the”