כֹּהkôh
כֹּה: thus, here
Pronunciation: ko · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3541
Meanings
1. thus, of manner, (so most frequently, and usually pointing to what is to follow, while כֵּן points commonly to what has preceded) (Genesis 15:5; Numbers 6:23; 1 Kings 2:30)
a. thus, if he say (Exodus 3:14; Exodus 3:15; Exodus 19:3)
b. thus, in this wise (Exodus 5:15; Deuteronomy 7:5; Numbers 22:30)
2. here, of place (Genesis 31:37; Numbers 23:15; 2 Samuel 18:30)
3. hitherto, of time, till now and till then, i.e. meanwhile (Exodus 7:16; Joshua 17:14; 1 Kings 18:45)
כֹּה: here (Daniel 7:28; Jeremiah 48:47; Jeremiah 51:64)
Same root
- הוּאhûwʼ · H1931he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
- כָּהkâh · H3542{properly, like this, i.e. by implication, (of manner) thus (or so); also (of place) here (or hither); or (of time) now}
- כָּכָהkâkâh · H3602just so, referring to the previous or following context
Where it appears
Appears 577 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 15:5 Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”
- Genesis 22:5 “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.”
- Genesis 24:30 He had seen the nose-ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man had said. So he rushed out to the spring, where the man was still standing beside his camels.
- Genesis 31:8 For if he said, ‘The speckled animals will be your wages,’ the whole flock began to produce speckled young. And when he changed his mind and said, ‘The striped animals will be your wages,’ then the whole flock produced striped young.
- Genesis 31:37 You have rummaged through everything I own. Now show me what you found that belongs to you! Set it out here in front of us, before our relatives, for all to see. Let them judge between us!
- Genesis 32:4 He told them, “Give this message to my master Esau: ‘Humble greetings from your servant Jacob. Until now I have been living with Uncle Laban,
See every passage
- Genesis 8 verses
- Exodus 18 verses
- Numbers 10 verses
- Deuteronomy 1 verses
- Joshua 6 verses
- Judges 2 verses
- Ruth 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 18 verses
- 2 Samuel 14 verses
- 1 Kings 23 verses
- 2 Kings 29 verses
- 1 Chronicles 4 verses
- 2 Chronicles 16 verses
- Ezra 1 verses
- Nehemiah 1 verses
- Isaiah 51 verses
- Jeremiah 159 verses
- Lamentations 1 verses
- Ezekiel 127 verses
- Amos 20 verses
- Obadiah 1 verses
- Micah 2 verses
- Nahum 1 verses
- Haggai 5 verses
- Zechariah 20 verses
- Malachi 1 verses
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).