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: Yahweh 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 you be my people, and I will be your God;

כְּכֹ֥ל (כְּ) ke. “according to”

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

כַּיּ֣וֹם (כַּ) ka “like the”

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [ergänzt: saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, 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 you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

כְּצֹ֣אן (כְּ) ke. “like”

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

כְּאַרְיֵ֣ה (כְּ) ke. “like”

It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Yahweh lives; 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 belt according to the word of Yahweh, and put it on my loins.

כִּדְבַ֣ר (כִּ) ki “according to”

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

כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who 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 belt, which is profitable for nothing.

כָּאֵז֣וֹר (כָּ) ka. “like the”

For as the belt cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to 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 passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.

כְּקַשׁ־ (כְּ) ke. “like”

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

כַּתַּנִּ֑ים (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

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

Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't leave us.

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

Therefore thus says Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them.

כְּפִ֣י (כְּ) ke. “like”

while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.

כִּזְכֹּ֤ר (כִּ) ki “when”

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, 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, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, 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, Yahweh, 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 holy, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

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”

House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

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

Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has 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”