H9004–/כ–k

The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that hath formed all [ergänzt: things], and Israel is the rod 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, from the iron furnace, saying, Hearken unto my voice and do them, according to all that I command you; so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:

כְּכֹ֥ל (כְּ) ke. “according to”

that I may perform the oath that I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I answered and said, Amen, Jehovah!

כַּיּ֣וֹם (כַּ) ka “like the”

And I was like a tame lamb [ergänzt: that] is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they 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, Jehovah, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and proved my heart toward thee. Drag them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

כְּצֹ֣אן (כְּ) ke. “like”

My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest; it hath raised its voice against me: therefore have I hated it.

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, [ergänzt: As] Jehovah liveth -- even as they taught my people to swear by Baal -- they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

And 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 had commanded me.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

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

כָּאֵז֣וֹר (כָּ) ka. “like the”

For as a 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 might 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”

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

כְּקַשׁ־ (כְּ) ke. “like”

And the wild asses stand on the heights, they snuff up the wind like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

כַּתַּנִּ֑ים (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

Thou hope of Israel, its Saviour in the time of trouble, why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveller that turneth aside to stay a night?

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

Why wilt thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet thou, 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, thou shalt stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth. Let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

כְּפִ֣י (כְּ) ke. “like”

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

כִּזְכֹּ֤ר (כִּ) ki “when”

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

כְּעַרְעָ֣ר (כְּ) ke. “like”

For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the stream, and he shall not see when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and in the year of drought he shall not be careful, neither shall he cease to yield fruit.

כְּעֵ֣ץ׀ (כְּ) ke. “like”

I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

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

and carry forth no burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do any work; but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers,

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

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

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

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, 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”

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

כְּרֽוּחַ־ (כְּ) ke. “like”