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Strong's #2505 - καθά
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- according as, just as
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κᾰθά [θᾰ],
Adv. for καθ' ἅ,
I according as, just as, IG 12.90.43, 116.27, Men. Mon. 551, PCair.Zen. 188.8 (iii B.C.), Plb. 3.107.10, LXX Genesis 7:9, etc.; ὁ κ. παρατεταγμένος σφυγμός the (so to speak) 'regular' pulse (a military metaphor), Archig. ap. Gal. 8.626.
II also καθάπερ, Ion. κατάπερ, Philol. 14, Democr. 164, Hdt. 1.182, al., Ar. Eq. 8, Ec. 61, IG 12.39.42, al., D. 37.16, etc.: freq. in legal instruments, ἡ πρᾶξις ἔστω κ. ἐκ δίκης PEleph. 1.12 (iv B.C.), etc.: with a part., like ὡς, ἅτε, D.C. 37.54 (nisi leg. καίπερ): — strengthd., καθάπερ εἰ (Ion. κατάπερ εἰ, Hdt. 1.170), like as if, exactly as, Pl. Phlb. 22e, 59e, al.; καθάπερ ἄν (for ἐάν) D. 23.41; καθάπερ ἂν εἰ Pl. Lg. 684c, Arist. Ph. 240b10, Plb. 3.32.2, etc.: — μάχαιραν κ. like a knife, Porph. Chr. 31. Cf. καθό, καθώς.
καθά, adverb for καθ' ἅ, according as, just as: Matthew 27:10. (Xenophon, Polybius, Diodorus, others; O. T. Apocrypha; the Sept. for כַּאֲשֶׁר, Genesis 7:9, 16, etc., and for כְּ, Genesis 19:8; Exodus 12:35, etc.)
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καθά , adv.
(for καθ᾿ ἅ ),
[in LXX: Genesis 7:9; Genesis 19:8, al. (H834, כְּ ), Isaiah 58:11, Wisdom of Solomon 3:10, al.;]
just as, according as: Matthew 27:10 (LXX), Luke 1:2, D (cf. BL, § 78, 1; Phil. Gosp., 8 f.).†
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This late form for καθάπερ is first used in literature by Polybius, and is frequently found in the papyri, e.g. P Petr II. 13(1).5 (B.C. 258–3) καθὰ ἐξειλήφαμεν, ";according as we have received,"; P Ryl II. 160(d)ii. 18 (A.D. 42) καθὰ καίγραπται (l. γέγραπται), ";as aforesaid,"; P Oxy XII. 1473.10 (A.D. 201) συμβιούτωσαν οὖν ἀλλήλοις οἱ γαμοῦντες ἀμέμπτως καθὰ καὶ πρότερον συνεβίουν. Cf. from the inscrr. Michel 1009 B.81 (c. B.C. 129) εἰς ] τὸν ἀεὶ χρόνον καθὰ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ὑπῆρχεν, and the reff. in Kälker Quaest. p. 300. See also Meisterhans Gr. p. 257.
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