Midvash

כְּמוֹkᵉmôw

like, as, when, literally the like of what (namely)..., a pleonastic form of כְּ (see מוֺ), and, like it, properly a substantive

Pronunciation: kem-o' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3644

Meanings

1. (56 t.) as an independent word (Genesis 19:15; Nehemiah 9:11)

2. as an equivalent for כְּ before suffixes, always before light ones, and occasionally before heavy ones

1.

a. like, as, adverb, as poetic synonym of כְּ (Exodus 15:5; Nehemiah 9:11; Nehemiah 9:8)

b. conjunction = כַּאֲשֶׁר, of time, of mode (Genesis 19:15; Zechariah 10:8; Proverbs 23:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 143 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 19:15 At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!”
  • Genesis 34:15 But here is a solution. If every man among you will be circumcised like we are,
  • Genesis 41:39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has revealed the meaning of the dreams to you, clearly no one else is as intelligent or wise as you are.
  • Genesis 44:15 “What have you done?” Joseph demanded. “Don’t you know that a man like me can predict the future?”
  • Genesis 44:18 Then Judah stepped forward and said, “Please, my lord, let your servant say just one word to you. Please, do not be angry with me, even though you are as powerful as Pharaoh himself.
  • Exodus 9:14 If you don’t, I will send more plagues on you and your officials and your people. Then you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
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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).