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Lexicon :: Strong's H3541 - kô

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כֹּה
Transliteration
kô
Pronunciation
ko
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
From the prefix k and הוּא (H1931)
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TWOT Reference: 955

Strong’s Definitions

כֹּה kôh, ko; from the prefix k and H1931; properly, like this, i.e. by implication, (of manner) thus (or so); also (of place) here (or hither); or (of time) now:—also, here, hitherto, like, on the other side, so (and much), such, on that manner, (on) this (manner, side, way, way and that way), mean while, yonder.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x

The KJV translates Strong's H3541 in the following manner: thus, so...also, like, hitherto, while, on this manner.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x
The KJV translates Strong's H3541 in the following manner: thus, so...also, like, hitherto, while, on this manner.

  1. thus, here, in this manner

    1. thus, so

    2. here, here and there

    3. until now, until now...until then, meanwhile

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כֹּה kôh, ko; from the prefix k and H1931; properly, like this, i.e. by implication, (of manner) thus (or so); also (of place) here (or hither); or (of time) now:—also, here, hitherto, like, on the other side, so (and much), such, on that manner, (on) this (manner, side, way, way and that way), mean while, yonder.
STRONGS H3541: Abbreviations
כֹּה demonstrative adverb thus, here (Biblical Aramaic H3542 כָּה; Targum, Syriac Version:Jerusalem, Mandean כָּא here: in Syriac with prefixes bdb046201 hither, bdb046202 (Syriac Version:Jerusalem bdb046203) hence, bdb046204 where? compare אֵיכָה, p. 32, and Köii. 1, 252) —
1. of manner, thus (so most frequently, and usually pointing to what is to follow, while כֵּן points commonly to what has preceded), Genesis 15:5 כה יהיה זרעך thus shall thy seed be, Numbers 6:23; 1 Kings 2:30 כֹּה דִבֶּר יוֺאָב וְכֹה עָנָנִי, 1 Kings 5:25; Isaiah 24:13 (answered by בְּ, as Jeremiah 23:29); with a substantive Isaiah 20:6 הִנֵּה כֹה מַבָּטֵנוּ, Jeremiah 9:21 (si vera lectio), Jeremiah 23:29; 1 Samuel 27:11. Mostly confined to particular phrases: thus
a. with different forms of אמר, כה תאמר thus shalt thou say Exodus 3:14,15; Exodus 19:3; Exodus 20:22 etc.; especially כה אמר יי֞ thus saith (or said) י׳ Exodus 4:22; Exodus 5:1; Exodus 7:17; Exodus 7:26; Exodus 8:16 etc.; and continually in the prophets, as Isaiah 7:7; Isaiah 8:11; Isaiah 18:4 etc.; Jeremiah 2:2,5; Jeremiah 4:27; Jeremiah 6:16 etc.; also in the idiomatic formula אִם כֹּה יאֹמַר if he say (or used to say) (the words spoken following) Genesis 31:8; 1 Samuel 14:9,10; 1 Samuel 20:7; 2 Samuel 15:26.
b. with עשׂה to do thus, Exodus 5:15; Deuteronomy 7:5; pointing back, Numbers 22:30; Joshua 6:14; 1 Samuel 27:11 and elsewhere; especially in the phrase כה יעשׂה אלהים וכה יוסיף (with variations), 1 Samuel 3:17 + (see יסף), in which כֹּה points to an imprecation understood but not expressed. With בְּ prefixed 1 Kings 22:20 ויאמר זה בְּכֹה וזה אמר בְּכֹה and one spake in this wise, and another spake in that wise (|| 2 Chronicles 18:19 כָכָהכָּ֗֗֗כָה; probably rightly).
2. of place, here (rare, chiefly in E), Genesis 31:37 שִׂים כֹּה place it here before my brethren, Numbers 23:15 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 18:30; Ruth 2:8. Repeated, Exodus 2:12 וַיִּפֶן כֹּה וָכֹה and he turned this way and that way; כֹּהכֹּ֗֗֗ה on this side... on that side Numbers 11:31. With עַד Genesis 22:5 and we will go עַדכֹּֿה as far as here (δεικτικῶς) i.e. yonder.
3. of time, עַד כֹּה hitherto, Exodus 7:16 (compare עַדהֵֿנָּה), Joshua 17:14; עַדכֹּֿה וְעַדכֹּֿה till now and till then, i.e. meanwhile, 1 Kings 18:45.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

15:5; 22:5; 31:8; 31:37

Exodus

2:12; 3:14; 3:15; 4:22; 5:1; 5:15; 7:16; 7:17; 8:16; 19:3; 20:22

Numbers

6:23; 11:31; 22:30; 23:15

Deuteronomy

7:5

Joshua

6:14; 17:14

Ruth

2:8

1 Samuel

3:17; 14:9; 14:10; 20:7; 27:11; 27:11

2 Samuel

15:26; 18:30

1 Kings

2:30; 18:45; 22:20

2 Chronicles

18:19

Isaiah

7:7; 8:11; 18:4; 20:6; 24:13

Jeremiah

2:2; 2:5; 4:27; 6:16; 9:21; 23:29; 23:29

H3541

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Strong's Number H3541 matches the Hebrew כֹּה (kô),
which occurs 577 times in 541 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 11 (1Sa 10:18–1Ki 22:11)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:18 - and he said to the sons of Israel, “Thus H3541 says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘I brought Israel up from Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:7 - Then he took a pair of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and after Samuel, so H3541 shall it be done to his oxen.” Then the dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:9 - And they said to the messengers who had come, “Thus H3541 you shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will have salvation.’” So the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:9 - “If they [fn]say to us, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stand in our place and not go up to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:10 - “But if they [fn]say, ‘Come up to us,’ then we will go up, for Yahweh has given them into our hands; and this shall be the sign to us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:44 - And Saul said, “May God do [fn]this H3541 to me and more also H3541, for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:2 - “Thus H3541 says Yahweh of hosts, ‘I will [fn]punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:27 - And the people spoke to him in accord with this word, saying, “Thus H3541 it will be done for the man who strikes him down.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:25 - Saul then said, “Thus H3541 you shall say to David, ‘The king does not desire any dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:7 - “If he [fn]says, ‘It is good,’ your servant will have peace; but if he is very angry, know that he has decided on evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:13 - “If it please my father to do you harm, may Yahweh do so H3541 to Jonathan and more also, if I do not reveal it in your ear and send you away, that you may go in peace. And may Yahweh be with you as He has been with my father.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:22 - “But if I [fn]say to the youth, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you,’ go, for Yahweh has sent you away.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:6 - and thus H3541 you shall say, ‘[fn]Have a long life; peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:22 - “May God do so H3541 to the enemies of David, and more also H3541, if by morning I leave as much as one [fn]male of any who belong to him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:11 - And David did not leave a man or a woman alive to bring to Gath, saying, “Lest they tell about us, saying, ‘So H3541 has David done and so H3541 has been his custom all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:9 - “May God do so H3541 to Abner, and more also H3541, if as Yahweh has sworn to David, I do not do this for him,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:35 - Then all the people came to [fn]persuade David to eat bread while it was still day; but David swore an oath, saying, “May God do so H3541 to me, and more also H3541, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun goes down.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 7:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:5 - “Go and say to My servant David, ‘Thus H3541 says Yahweh, “Are you the one who would build Me a house to inhabit?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 7:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:8 - “So now, thus H3541 you shall say to My servant David, ‘Thus H3541 says Yahweh of hosts, “I Myself took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:25 - Then David said to the messenger, “Thus H3541 you shall say to Joab, ‘Do not let this thing be evil in your sight, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle against the city stronger and [fn]tear it down’; and so strengthen him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:7 -

Nathan then said to David, “You are the man! Thus H3541 says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘It is I who anointed you king over Israel and it is I who delivered you from the hand of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:11 - “Thus H3541 says Yahweh, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives from before your sight and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:26 - “But if He should say thus H3541, ‘I have no delight in you,’ behold, here I am, let Him do to me as seems good in His sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:7 - And thus H3541 Shimei said when he cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of bloodshed, and vile fellow!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:10 - But the king said, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses, and if Yahweh has told him, ‘Curse David,’ then who shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:30 - Then the king said, “Turn aside and stand here H3541.” So he turned aside and stood still.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:33 -

[fn]Then the king trembled and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And thus H3541 he said as he walked, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:13 - “And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do so H3541 to me, and more also H3541, if you will not be commander of the army before me continually in place of Joab.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:12 - “Go and speak to David, ‘Thus H3541 says Yahweh, “I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, and I will do that to you.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:23 - Then King Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “May God do so H3541 to me and more also H3541, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own [fn]life.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:30 - So Benaiah came to the tent of Yahweh and said to him, “Thus H3541 the king has said, ‘Come out.’” But he said, “No, for I will die here.” And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus H3541 spoke Joab, and thus H3541 he answered me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:11 - Solomon then gave Hiram [fn]20,000 kors of wheat as food for his household, and [fn]20 kors of beaten oil; thus H3541 Solomon would give Hiram year by year.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:31 - And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus H3541 says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:10 - Then the young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus H3541 you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us!’ Thus you shall speak to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins!

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:24 - ‘Thus H3541 says Yahweh, “You shall not go up and fight against your brothers, the sons of Israel; return every man to his house, for this thing is from Me.”’” So they listened to the word of Yahweh, and returned to go their way according to the word of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - And he cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said, “O altar, altar, thus H3541 says Yahweh, ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah is his name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:21 - and he called out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Thus H3541 says Yahweh, ‘Because you have rebelled against the [fn]word of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:7 - “Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘Thus H3541 says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you ruler over My people Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:14 - “For thus H3541 says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘The [fn]bowl of flour shall not be exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil [fn]be empty, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the face of the earth.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:45

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:45 - Now it happened that in a little H3541 while H3541 the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:2 - Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So H3541 may the gods do to me and even H3541 more, if I do not make your [fn]life as the [fn]life of one of them by about this time tomorrow.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:2 - Then he sent messengers to the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him, “Thus H3541 says Ben-hadad,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:5 - Then the messengers returned and said, “Thus H3541 says [fn]Ben-hadad, ‘Surely, I sent to you saying, “You shall give me your silver and your gold and your wives and your children,”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:10 - Then Ben-hadad sent to him and said, “May the gods do so H3541 to me and more also H3541, if the dust of Samaria will be sufficient for [fn]a handful for all the people who [fn]follow me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:13 -

Now behold, a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and said, “Thus H3541 says Yahweh, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver them into your hand today, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:14 - And Ahab said, “By whom?” So he said, “Thus H3541 says Yahweh, ‘By the young men of the rulers of the provinces.’” Then he said, “Who shall [fn]begin the battle?” And he said, “You.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:28 - Then a man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel and said, “Thus H3541 says Yahweh, ‘Because the Arameans have said, “Yahweh is a god of the mountains, but He is not a god of the valleys,” therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:42 - And he said to him, “Thus H3541 says Yahweh, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your [fn]life shall go for his [fn]life, and your people for his people.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19 - “And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus H3541 says Yahweh, “Have you murdered and also taken possession?”’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus H3541 says Yahweh, “In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth the dogs will lick up your blood, even yours.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:11 - And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, “Thus H3541 says Yahweh, ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are consumed.’”

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