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title: כְּ — like · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: כְּ (lemma:כְּ), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 63 times: like. BDB 1906: part. like, as, about. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּ

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«כְּ» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **like** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 63 times · **Key:** lemma:כְּ · **BDB:** כְּ

### Glosses

as (28); like (19); according (7)

### Meaning (OSHB)

like [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

part. like, as, about [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** part. like, as, about (BH כְּ, q.v.);—like, as, Dn 2:40 תַּקִּיפָא כְּפַרְזְלָא, 4:5, 32; 5:11 +; according to 4:32 וּכְמִצְבְּיֵהּ עָבֵד and according to his will he doeth, Ezr 6:9, 18 +; about (as BH 1 a: cf. Zinj. Lzb444 כשלשן מלך\[ן\]), Dn 4:16 כְּשָׁעָה חֲדָה, 6:1; with inf. (BH 3 b), 6:21 וּכְמִקְרְבֵהּ לְגֻבָּא and as he drew near, etc. Cpds.:—כְּדִי and כִּדְנָה, v. דִּי and דְּנָה; כַּחֲדָה together, v. חַד (sub אחד).

### Jastrow 1903

כְּ־: as, like whereas locale [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** prefix, h. (v. כֵּן) as, like. Targ. Gen. IX, 3. Targ. Hos. IV, 9; a. v. fr.—Ber. I, 2 כאדם וכ׳ like one reading in the Torah. Ib. 3 כדרכו as usual; a. v. fr.— whereas. Tosef. Snh. II, 6 כגוזלייא … וכאימרייא וכ׳ ed. Zuck. (Var. דגוזלייא … ואמרייא, as Snh. 11ᵃ, Y. ib. I, 18ᵈ top) whereas the spring pigeons are yet tender \&c.—\[Ib. 5 בגוזלייא וכ׳.\]—\[Compound particles כְּדֵי, כְּוָת \&c., v. s. vv. or second component.—ך as affix, frequ. indicating place (כ locale) or instrument, as בָּזָךְ, דוּךְ, אוּשְׁפְּזִיכָא \&c.\]

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 9 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 6:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.1/)

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וְדָרְיָ֙וֶשׁ֙ מָֽדָיָ֔אקַבֵּ֖ל מַלְכוּתָ֑א כְּבַ֥ר שְׁנִ֖ין שִׁתִּ֥ין וְתַרְתֵּֽין׃

*Word for word:* and Darius the Mede he.received the kingdom about a.son of.years sixty and two

*JPS 1917:* And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

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[Daniel 6:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.10/)

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כָּל־קֳבֵ֖ל דְּנָ֑ה מַלְכָּא֙ דָּֽרְיָ֔וֶשׁ רְשַׁ֥ם כְּתָבָ֖א וֶאֱסָרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* as to because this the king Darius he.signed the writing and the prohibition

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.

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