3644. kemo or kamo
Lexical Summary
kemo or kamo: like, as, when
Original Word: כְּמוֹ
Transliteration: kemo or kamo
Phonetic Spelling: (kem-o')
Part of Speech: adverb; conjunction; substantive; conjunction
Short Definition: like, as, when
Meaning: like, as, when
Strong's Concordance
according to, such as it were, well as, in comparison of, like as, to, unto, thus,

Or kamow {kaw-mo'}; a form of the prefix "k-", but used separately (compare ken); as, thus, so -- according to, (such) as (it were, well as), in comparison of, like (as, to, unto), thus, when, worth.

see HEBREW ken

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3644. kemo

or kamo כְּמוֺadverb 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 כְּמָאlike Psalm 78:68 Levy, usually דְּ כְּמָאlike as; (i.e. ) like what, like, usually followed by like as; Samaritan ; Arabic Ethiopic kama, like as, Di Gr§ 63 a Sabean כמוZMG 1883, 394) — used

1 (56 t.) as an independent word (except Genesis 19:15; Nehemiah 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, Exodus 15:5 they went down כמואֿבןlike a stone (hence in prose Nehemiah 9:11), 9:8 (Psalm 78:13), Isaiah 30:22; 51:6 (see כֵּן‎), 26:17 לָלֶרֶת תַּקְרִיב חָרָח כְּמוֺ‎ (see כְּ1c (2), on the construct: so 41:25; Psalm 58:5, 8a,9), Isaiah 26:18 we have brought forth the like of, as it were, wind, Jeremiah 13:21; 15:18; 50:26; Ezekiel 16:57 (עת כמו‎ as at the time of: see כְּNote), Hosea 7:4; 8:12; 13:7; Habakkuk 3:14 (as it were), Zechariah 9:15; 10:2, 7 (as with wine: see ib.) Elsewhere chiefly in Psalms (19 t.) and Job (11 t.), as Psalm 29:6; 61:7; 63:6; 78:69; 79:5; 88:6; 90:9; Job 6:15; 10:22 (twice in verse); 12:3 אלה כמוthe like of these things, 14:9; Song of Solomon 6:10; 7:2; Lamentations 4:6 רגע כמו‎ (in prose כרגע‎). Repeated, like כְּ ֗֗֗ כְּ‎, Psalm 58:10; and answered by כֵּןIsaiah 26:17. — Psalm 58:8b יתמוללו כמו‎, as it were is against usage of כמו‎ (with a verb), and yields a lame sense: read perhaps ׳ית‎ [חָצִיר‎] כמו‎ (Lag Che); 73:15 if I said, כְמ֑וֺ אֲסַמְּרָה‎, the text is untranslateable, the rendering thus for כמו‎ being indefensible: probably הֵנָּה‎ has dropped out before the following ׃הִנֵּה‎ for הֵנָּה כְּמוֺthe like of these things, compare Job 23:14 כָּהֵנָּה‎, and 12:3 above

b. conjunction = כַּאֲשֶׁר‎: (a) of time, once, Genesis 19:15 הַשַּׁחַר עָלָה כְּמוֺwhen the dawn arose; (β) of mode, according as, Zechariah 10:8 רָבוּ כְּמוֺ וְרָבוּProverbs 23:7 (answered by כֵּן‎). — For

2 (before suffixes), see עכּ‎.








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