Thus
כָּ֫כָהStrong’s H3602kakhah (ka-khah)
Appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kakhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “thus” and “that thus”. It appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover.”
Meaning
- Like this, thus
How it's translated
- thus 33
- and thus 2
- that thus 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 5
- Jeremiah 5
- 1 Kings 3
- Esther 3
- Exodus 2
- Deuteronomy 2
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:35And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.
- Numbers 8:26But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.
- Numbers 11:15And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
- Numbers 15:11Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.
- Numbers 15:12According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.
- Numbers 15:13All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
All 35 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
כָּ֫כָה kakhah · thus
like this, thus
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thus” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THUS, adverb
In this or that manner; on this wise; as, thus saith the Lord; the Pharisee prayed thus
- “THUS did Noah, according to all that God commanded him” Genesis 6:22
- To this degree or extent; as thus wise; thus peaceable.
- In the phrase, thus much, it seems to be an adjective, equivalent to this much.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.