H9004–/כ–k

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

כְאֵ֜לֶּה (כְ) khe. “[is] like”

which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God;

כְּכֹ֥ל (כְּ) ke. “according to”

that I may establish the oath which I sware unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, O Jehovah.

כַּיּ֣וֹם (כַּ) ka “like the”

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [ergänzt: saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

כְּכֶ֥בֶשׂ (כְּ) ke. “[had been] like”

But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

כְּצֹ֣אן (כְּ) ke. “like”

My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest: she hath uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.

כְּאַרְיֵ֣ה (כְּ) ke. “like”

And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Jehovah liveth; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

So I bought a girdle according to the word of Jehovah, and put it upon my loins.

כִּדְבַ֣ר (כִּ) ki “according to”

So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Jehovah commanded me.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

This evil people, that refuse to hear my words, that walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing.

כָּאֵז֣וֹר (כָּ) ka. “like the”

For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith Jehovah; that they may be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ (כַּ) ka. “just”

Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passeth away, by the wind of the wilderness.

כְּקַשׁ־ (כְּ) ke. “like”

And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

כַּתַּנִּ֑ים (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

O thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

כְּגֵ֣ר (כְּ) ke. “like”וּכְאֹרֵ֖חַ (כְ) khe. “like”

Why shouldest thou be as a man affrighted, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

כְּאִ֣ישׁ (כְּ) ke. “like”כְּגִבּ֖וֹר (כְּ) ke. “like”

Therefore thus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, that thou mayest stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall return unto thee, but thou shalt not return unto them.

כְּפִ֣י (כְּ) ke. “like”

whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

כִּזְכֹּ֤ר (כִּ) ki “when”

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

כְּעַרְעָ֣ר (כְּ) ke. “like”

For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

כְּעֵ֣ץ׀ (כְּ) ke. “like”

I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

כִּדְרָכָ֔יו (כִּ) ke. “according to”כִּפְרִ֖י (כִּ) ki “according to”

neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.

הֲכַיּוֹצֵ֨ר (כַ) kha “like the”כַחֹ֙מֶר֙ (כַ) kha. “like the”

Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

כָּאֵ֑לֶּה (כָּ) ka. “like”

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

כְּרֽוּחַ־ (כְּ) ke. “like”