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kwt (kwāṯ_) prep. like
like, just as
Common (except: OA, BA)
IduOstr 1:186.4↗ כות ג̇[٠٠‏ ; 11QtgJob 34.5=40:9↗ או בקל כותה תר̇עם‏ : [=MT וּבְקוֹל כָּמֹהוּ תַרְעֵם] ; 4Q550 5:5↗ אפש[ר לגבר כותה̊ להתבה [לגבר ]כ̇ו̊תך‏ : [is it] possible for a man like him to answer [a man] like you? ; TgO Gen34:15↗ אִם תְהוֹן כְוָתַנָא לְמִגזַר לְכוֹן כֹל דְכוּרָא‏ : if you become like us as regards circumcising every male ; PTSot 16.c:17[2]↗ והא ר׳ יודן סבר כוותי‏ : behold, PN holds the same opinion as I ; BT BM 84a(32)↗ דליהוו להי בני שפירי כותי‏ : so that they (f.) should have beautiful children like me ; Tobit(Med) 15.16 chap 11↗ לית כותך אסי מגן‏ : there is no gratis physician like You
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w. a non-personal object
JLAtg, Sam
TgJ Jer36:32↗ וְעוֹד אִתוֹסַפוּ עֲלֵיהוֹן פִתגָמִין סַגִיאִין כְוָתְהוֹן‏ : additionally added to (Jeremiah's prophecies) where many words like them ; SamTgJ Ex9:24↗ דלא הוה כבתה במצרים מד הות לגוי‏ : (hail) whose like had not been in Egypt since it became a nation
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in accordance with the opinion of
JBA, JBAg
BT Ber 9a(14)↗ או דלמא רבנן כותיך סבירא להו‏ : or perhaps the rabbis think as you do ; BT BM 13b(13)↗ תניא כותיה דר׳ יוחנן‏ : there is a barraita in accordance with PN's opinion ; TGAs28(1) 16.1.16↗ ולית הילכתא כואתיה‏ : but the halakhah is not in accordance with his opinion
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most commonly found with pronominal suffixes, excepting OfA, CPA, and Sam., as opposed to k_ and the longer forms hyk, ˁyk, which are used without such suffixes.
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Rare in Syr.; see s.v. ˀkwt for the normal form. In Jewish and Syriac texts almost always with a personal (usually pronominal) object, while other uses of "like" are expressed with forms based on k_ and hyk, ˀyk.

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