Lexical Definition

‎כְּנֵמָא‎ kᵉnêmâʼ (ken-ay-maw') thus ^A:Adv
(Aramaic) corresponding to ‎כְּמוֹ‎

so, (in) this manner (sort), thus.

• so or thus

1) thus, so, accordingly, as follows

See Greek: οὗτος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎כְּנֵ֫מָא‎ adverb accordingly, as follows (derivation uncertain: Nö^{GGA, 1884, 1021} Marti and others from ‎כֵּן‎ + indefinite ‎מָא‎, so somewhat, ungefähr so: see older improbable view (as we should say, from ‎כְּ‎ and ‎נֵימָא‎ = ‎נֵאמַר‎, compare Talmud ‎יֵימָא‎ for ‎יֵימַר‎) in Thes⁶⁵²): referring backwards, Ear Ezra 6:13 ‎כְּנֵמָא ֗֗֗ עֲבַדוּ‎ did accordingly; referring forwards, Ezra 4:8 . . . ‎כְּתַבוּ‎ ‎כְנֵמָא‎ wrote a letter . . . as follows, Ezra 5:4(read c ᵐ5 ‎אֲמַרוּ‎; ‎אֲמַרְנָא‎ from vEzra 5:9, Mey^{Entst. 26}), vEzra 5:9 vEzra 5:11.

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