כָּכָה
kâkâh · H3602 · Hebrew · 37 occurrences
Meanings
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thus, in this manner, in this way, so
A referent pointing to the way in which a certain event or series of events is performed
ExamplesExodus 12:11 ‘Now you shall eat it in this way: with your garment belted around your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in a hurry—it is the LORD’S Passover.
Exodus 29:35 “So you shall do for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you shall ordain them for seven days.
Deuteronomy 25:9 then his brother’s widow shall come up to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, ‘This is what is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house!’
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַתָּהyou 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- כֵּן kên · H3651 · thus, in this manner, in this way
- Both words are deictic adverbs meaning "thus," "so" or "in such a manner," and can substitute for each other in context; they are two distinct Hebrew words with overlapping deictic and manner functions.
In the other Testament 1 word
- οὕτω hoútō · G3779 · so, thus, in this way
- Greek οὕτω renders Hebrew כָּכָה as the standard deictic adverb for manner/means ('thus', 'in this way'), with both marking procedural or modal reference to surrounding context.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Descriptive Referents003002003
- This word is a demonstrative adverb meaning "thus" or "in this manner," pointing back to a manner or way of acting already described rather than naming a person, place, or thing, so it falls among words that function to describe or refer back to manner.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3602. kakah כָּ֫כָה37 adverb thus (Late Hebrew abbreviated to כָּךְ, with prepositions…
כָּ֫כָה37 adverb thus (Late Hebrew abbreviated to כָּךְ, with prepositions כָּךְ בֵּין meanwhile, לְפִיכָךְ therefore; probably either from כָה and כְּ, literally as thus, Ol§ 223 h; or from כָה כָּה Köii. 1, 253), somewhat more emphatic than כֹּה, usually prefixed to word which it qualifies: — Exo 12:11 אתו תאכלו וככה and thus shall ye eat it, Exo 29:35; Num 8:26; Num 11:15 לי עשׂה את ככה ואם, Num 15:11-12, Num 15:13; Deu 25:9; Deu 29:23 (compare 1Ki 9:8; Jer 22:8); so often with עשׂה: 1Sa 19:17 רמיתני ככה למה why hast thou thus deceived me ? 2Sa 17:21; 1Ki 1:6, 1Ki 1:48; Jer 13:9; Jer 19:11; Jer 28:11; Jer 51:64; once with an adjective 2Sa 13:4 דל כָכָה אתה מדוע why art thou thus lean ? Ecc 11:5 answering to כַּאֲשֶׁר; Psa 144:15 לוֺ שֶׁכָּכָה העם the people to which it is thus. Once 2Ch 18:19 repeated, in this way . . . in that way (|| 1Ki 22:20 בְּכֹהבְּ֗֗֗כֹה). compare the synonym כָּזֹאת. With a preposition once, in late Hebrew, Est 9:26 עַלכָּֿ֫כָה concerning such a matter. With the interrogative אֵיכָכָה אי, how ? (p. 32).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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