כָּכָה kakhah

Hebrew word for “thus” · Strong’s H3602 · used 37 times in 35 verses

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Meaning

like this, thus

How it is translated

Glosses given for kakhah in context, with how often each is used:

• thus 37

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 15 (3), 1 Kings 1 (2), Esther 6 (2), Exodus 12 (1), Exodus 29 (1), Numbers 8 (1), Numbers 11 (1), Deuteronomy 25 (1), Deuteronomy 29 (1), Joshua 10 (1)

Forms

• ככה 33
• וככה 2
• שׁככה 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kakhah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מָה mah “what?” 8
• זֹאת zot “this” 6
• זֶה zeh “this” 6
• עָבַר avar “to pass” 4
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 4
• יְקָר yeqar “preciousness” 2
• נַעַל naal “sandal” 2
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 4
• עַיִן ayin “eye” 4
• לְבוּשׁ levush “clothing” 2
• עִיר ir “city” 4
• רְחוֹב rechov “street/plaza” 2

Key verses

The verses using kakhah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 12:11 — 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.
• Numbers 11:15 — And 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.
• Deuteronomy 29:24 — Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
• 1 Kings 1:48 — And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.
• 1 Kings 9:8 — And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this…
• 2 Chronicles 7:21 — And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and…
• Nehemiah 5:13 — Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out,…
• Job 1:5 — And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt…
• Ecclesiastes 11:5 — As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God…
• Jeremiah 22:8 — And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?
• Jeremiah 51:64 — And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of…
• Ezekiel 31:18 — To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.