H9004–/כ–k

Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.

כַּאֲשֶׁר־ (כַּ) ka. “just”

Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your e

כַּעֲרָבִ֖י (כַּ) ka. “like”

And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.

כְּלִבִּ֑י (כְּ) ke. “according to”

Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

כָאֵ֜שׁ (כָ) kha. “like <the>”

See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us.

כַּעֲנָנִ֣ים (כַּ) ka. “like”וְכַסּוּפָה֙ (כַ) kha. “like the”

Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.

כְּשֹׁמְרֵ֣י (כְּ) ke. “like”

A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone f

כְּחוֹלָ֜ה (כְּ) ke. “like”כְּמַבְכִּירָ֔ה (כְּ) ke. “like”

Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

כָּזֶ֔ה (כָּ) ka. “[is] like”

Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

כְּקֶ֣בֶר (כְּ) ke. “[is] like”

And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is n

כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

כְּשַׁ֣ךְ (כְּ) ke. “as”

As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

כִּכְלוּב֙ (כִּ) ki “like”

Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

כָּזֶ֔ה (כָּ) ka. “[is] like”

As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

כְּהָקִ֥יר (כְּ) ke. “as”

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Everything will be taken from the rest of Israel as the last grapes are taken from the vine; let your hand be turned to the small branches, like one pulling off grapes.

כַגֶּ֖פֶן (כַ) kha. “like <the>”כְּבוֹצֵ֖ר (כְּ) ke. “like”

Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion.

כַּיָּ֣ם (כַּ) ka “[is] like the”כְּאִישׁ֙ (כְּ) ke. “like”

The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

כַּיּוֹלֵדָֽה׃ (כַּ) ka “like <the>”

For this reason I will do to the house which is named by my name, and in which you have put your faith, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

And I will send you away from before my face, as I have sent away all your brothers, even all the seed of Ephraim.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.

כְּס֥וּס (כְּ) ke. “like”

Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

כָּזֶ֔ה (כָּ) ka. “[is] like”

Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?

כַמִּדְבָּ֖ר (כַ) kha. “like <the>”

The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.

כְּדֹ֖מֶן (כְּ) ke. “like”וּכְעָמִ֛יר (כְ) khe. “like”

It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.

כְּתֹ֨מֶר (כְּ) ke. “[are] like”

This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.

כִּדְנָה֙ (כִּ) ki “like”