כְּמוֹ

1. (56 t.) as an independent word (except 1 Mos 19,15; Neh 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, 2 Mos 15,5 they went down כמואֿבן like a stone (hence in prose Neh 9,11), vNeh 9,8 (Sl 78,13), Es 30,22; Es 51,6 (see כֵּן), Es 26,17 כְּמוֺ חָרָח תַּקְרִיב לָלֶרֶת (see כְּ 1 c (2), on the construct: so Es 41,25; Sl 58,5; Sl 58,9), vEs 26,18 we have brought forth the like of, as it were, wind, Jer 13,21; Jer 15,18; Jer 50,26; Ezk 16,57 (כמו עת as at the time of: see כְּ Note), Hos 7,4; Hos 8,12; Hos 13,7; Hab 3,14 (as it were), Zak 9,15; Zak 10,2; Zak 10,7 (as with wine: see ib.) Elsewhere chiefly in Psalms (19 t.) and Job (11 t.), as Sl 29,6; Sl 61,7; Sl 63,6; Sl 78,69; Sl 79,5; Sl 88,6; Sl 90,9; Job 6,15; Job 10,22 (twice in verse); Job 12,3 כמו אלה the like of these things, Job 14,9; Hoj 6,10; Hoj 7,2; Klg 4,6 כמו רגע (in prose כרגע). Repeated, like כְּ ֗֗֗ כְּ, Sl 58,10 and answered by כֵּן Es 26,17. — Sl 58,8b כמו יתמוללו, as it were is against usage of כמו (with a verb), and yields a lame sense: read perhaps ׳ית [חָצִיר] כמו (Lag Che); Sl 73,15 if I said, אֲסַפְּרָה כְמ֑וֺ, the text is untranslateable, the rendering thus for כמו being indefensible: probably הֵנָּה has dropped out before the following ׃הִנֵּה for כְּמוֺ הֵנָּה the like of these things, compare Job 23,14 כָּהֵנָּה, and Job 12,3 above b. conjunction = כַּאֲשֶׁר: (a) of time, once, 1 Mos 19,15 כְּמוֺ עָלָה הַשַּׁחַר when the dawn arose; (β) of mode, according as, Zak 10,8 וְרָבוּ כְּמוֺ רָבוּ Ord 23,7 (answered by כֵּן). — For 2 (before suffixes), see עכּ.