STRONGS NUMBER H3644

H3644. kemo

or kamo 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 Psalm 78:68 Levy, usually דְּ כְּמָא‎ 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 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 כמואֿבן‎ like 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 כְּ‎ 1c (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 כְּ‎ Note), 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 כמו‎ the 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 כֵּן‎ Isaiah 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 כְּמוֺ‎ the 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 כְּמוֺ‎ when the dawn arose; (β) of mode, according as, Zechariah 10:8 רָבוּ כְּמוֺ וְרָבוּ‎ Proverbs 23:7 (answered by כֵּן‎). — For

2 (before suffixes), see עכּ‎.