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כְּמוֹStrong’s H3644

kemo (ke-mo)

Appears in 127 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Kemo is the Hebrew word usually translated “like”, “like you” and “like it”. It appears in 127 verses of the Old Testament.

“Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.”
Zechariah 5:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. Like, as, the like of which
  2. When, according as, as it were
How it's translated
  • like 54
  • like you 25
  • like it 14
  • like me 13
  • like him 8
  • like us 4
  • as you 4
  • like yourself 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 25
  • Job 16
  • Exodus 11
  • Isaiah 9
  • Jeremiah 9
  • Deuteronomy 7

27 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 127 verses, by book
Leviticus 2
19:1819:34
Numbers 1
23:10
Judges 2
8:189:48
1 Samuel 3
10:2421:926:15
2 Samuel 3
7:229:818:3
2 Kings 3
3:718:523:25
1 Chronicles 1
17:20
2 Chronicles 3
6:1418:335:18
Nehemiah 3
6:119:1113:26
Proverbs 1
23:7
Song of Solomon 2
6:107:1
Lamentations 2
1:214:6
Ezekiel 2
5:916:57
Joel 1
2:2
Micah 1
7:18
Habakkuk 1
3:14
Haggai 1
2:3
Hebrew dictionary

כְּמוֹ kemo · like

adv 1) like, as, the like of which conj 2) when, according as, as it were

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “like” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

LIKE, adjective

[Latin, Heb., Gr. See Lick and Lickerish.]

  1. Equal in quantity, quality or degree; as a territory of like extent with another; men of like excellence.
  2. Similar; resembling; having resemblance.“Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are” James 5:17“What city is like unto this great city?” Revelation 18:18“I saw three unclean spirits like frogs” Revelation 16:13“Among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah” Daniel 1:19
  3. Probably; likely, that is, having the resemblance or appearance of an event; giving reason to expect or believe.“He is like to die of hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread” Jeremiah 38:9
All definitions and other forms of “like”

    LIKE, noun

    [elliptically, for like thing, like event, like person.]

    1. some person or thing resembling another; an equal.
    2. had like in the phrase, 'he had like to be defeated, ' seems to be a corruption; but perhaps like here is used for resemblance or probability, and has the character of a noun.

    LIKE, adverb

    1. In the same manner.“- Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these” Matthew 6:29“LIKE as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him” Psalms 103:13
    2. In a manner becoming.“Be strong, and quit yourselves like men” 1 Samuel 4:9
    3. Likely; probably; as like enough it will.

    LIKE, verb transitive

    [Latin placeo and delecto, with prefixes.]

    1. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve. it expresses less than love and delight.
    2. to please; to be agreeable to.
    3. To liken. obsolete

    LIKE, verb intransitive

    1. To be pleased; to choose.
    2. To like of, to be pleased. obsolete

    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.