Lexical Definition

‎כְּמוֹ‎ kᵉmôw (kem-o') like ^H:Conj
or כָּמוֹ kâmôw (kaw-mo'); (compare ‎כֵּן‎)

according to, (such) as (it were, well as), in comparison of, like (as, to, unto), thus, when, worth.

• a form of the prefix 'k-', but used separately as, thus, so

adv
1) like, as, the like of which
conj
2) when, according as, as it were

See Greek: ὅμοιος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎כְּמוֺ‎ adverb and conjunction like, as, when (literally the like of what (namely) . . ., a pleonastic form of ‎כְּ‎ (see ‎מוֺ‎), and, like it, properly a substantive: compare Aramaic ‎כְּמָא‎ like Ps 78:68 Levy, usually ‎כְּמָא דְּ‎ like as; (i.e. ) like what, like, usually followed by like as; Samaritan ; Arabic Ethiopic kama, like as, Di Gr^{§ 63 a} Sabean ‎כמו‎^{ZMG 1883, 394}) — used

1. (56 t.) as an independent word (except Gen 19:15; Neh 9:11, only in poetry);

2. as an equivalent for ‎כְּ‎ before suffixes, always before light ones, and occasionally before heavy ones (see ‎כְּ‎ at the beginning): —

1. a. adverb, as poetic synonym of ‎כְּ‎, like, as, Exod 15:5 they went down ‎כמואֿבן‎ like a stone (hence in prose Neh 9:11), vNeh 9:8 (Ps 78:13), Isa 30:22; Isa 51:6 (see ‎כֵּן‎), Isa 26:17 ‎כְּמוֺ חָרָח תַּקְרִיב‎ ‎לָלֶרֶת‎ (see ‎כְּ‎ 1 c (2), on the construct: so Isa 41:25; Ps 58:5*; Ps 58:9*), vIsa 26:18 we have brought forth the like of, as it were, wind, Jer 13:21; Jer 15:18; Jer 50:26; Ezek 16:57 (‎כמו‎ ‎עת‎ as at the time of: see ‎כְּ‎ Note), Hos 7:4; Hos 8:12; Hos 13:7; Hab 3:14 (as it were), Zech 9:15; Zech 10:2; Zech 10:7 (as with wine: see ib.) Elsewhere chiefly in Psalms (19 t.) and Job (11 t.), as Ps 29:6; Ps 61:7*; Ps 63:6*; Ps 78:69; Ps 79:5; Ps 88:6*; Ps 90:9; Job 6:15; Job 10:22 (twice in verse); Job 12:3 ‎כמו אלה‎ the like of these things, Job 14:9; Song 6:10; Song 7:2*; Lam 4:6 ‎כמו רגע‎ (in prose ‎כרגע‎). Repeated, like ‎כְּ ֗֗֗ כְּ‎, Ps 58:10* and answered by ‎כֵּן‎ Isa 26:17. — Ps 58:8*b ‎כמו יתמוללו‎, as it were is against usage of ‎כמו‎ (with a verb), and yields a lame sense: read perhaps ‎׳‎‎ית‎ [‎חָצִיר‎] ‎כמו‎ (Lag Che); Ps 73:15 if I said, ‎אֲסַפְּרָה כְמ֑וֺ‎, the text is untranslateable, the rendering thus for ‎כמו‎ being indefensible: probably ‎הֵנָּה‎ has dropped out before the following ‎׃הִנֵּה‎ for ‎כְּמוֺ הֵנָּה‎ the like of these things, compare Job 23:14 ‎כָּהֵנָּה‎, and Job 12:3 above b. conjunction = ‎כַּאֲשֶׁר‎: (a) of time, once, Gen 19:15 ‎כְּמוֺ עָלָה הַשַּׁחַר‎ when the dawn arose; (β) of mode, according as, Zech 10:8 ‎וְרָבוּ כְּמוֺ רָבוּ‎ Prov 23:7 (answered by ‎כֵּן‎). — For 2 (before suffixes), see ‎עכּ‎.

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