Comparative Sentence

Comparative Sentence
§ 151. This form of sent. has usually ‏כַּֽאְַשֶׁר‎ in prot. and ‏כֵּן‎ in apod. Genesis 41:13 ‏כַּֽאְַשֶׁר פָּתַר־לָנוּ כֵּן הָיָה‎ as he interpreted to us, so it was. Exodus 1:12, Judges 1:7, Isaiah 31:4; Isaiah 52:14-15; Isaiah 65:8, Psalms 48:8; cf. transposed order, Genesis 18:5, Exodus 10:10, 2 Samuel 5:25.—Or ‏כְּ‎ with inf. or noun in prot., Hosea 4:7 ‏כְּרֻבָּם כֵּן חָֽטְאוּ־לִי‎ as they multiplied, so they sinned. Psalms 48:10; Psalms 123:2, Proverbs 26:1, Proverbs 26:8, Proverbs 26:18-19, 1 Samuel 9:13 (temporal).
In the prot. ‏כאשׁר‎ may be omitted. Hosea 11:2 ‏קָֽרְאוּ לָהֶם כֵּן הָֽלְכוּ‎ as (the more) they called them, so they went away. Judges 5:15, Jeremiah 3:20, Isaiah 55:9, Psalms 48:5. In vigorous style the compar. particle may be omitted both in prot. and apod., Isaiah 62:5. The two clauses are then often equated by vav, especially in proverbial comparisons. Proverbs 26:14 the door turns on its hinges ‏וְעָצֵל עַל־מִטָּתוֹ‎ and (so) a sluggard on his bed. Proverbs 11:16; Proverbs 17:3; Proverbs 25:3, Proverbs 25:20, Proverbs 25:25; Proverbs 26:7, Proverbs 26:9, Proverbs 26:21, Job 5:7; Job 12:11; Job 14:11, Job 14:12. And sometimes without and, Proverbs 25:26, Proverbs 25:28, Job 24:19.
Rem. 1. In some passages ‏כֵּן‎ so expresses the corresponding immediateness of the result or consequence of the prot. Psalms 48:5 they saw so they feared (as soon as they saw, &c.), cf. Nahum 1:12, 1 Kings 20:40.
Rem. 2. With ‏כְּ‎... ‏כְּ‎ or ‏וּכְ‎... ‏כְּ‎ the first word is usually compared to the second, so... as. Genesis 44:18 ‏כָּמוֹךָ כְּפַרְעֹה‎ thou art as Ph. (so thou as Ph.), Genesis 18:25 ‏כַּצַּדִּיק כָּֽרָשָׁע‎ the righteous like the wicked, Hosea 4:9, 2 Chronicles 18:3. But sometimes the reverse, as... Son_1:1-17 S. 2 Chronicles 30:24, Judges 8:18, Isaiah 24:2, Joshua 14:11.