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 [Gen 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.
G2505 — καθά
adverb for καθ' ἅ, according as, just as: [Mat 27:10]. (Xenophon, Polybius, Diodorus, others; O. T. Apocrypha; the Sept. for כַּאֲשֶׁר, [Gen 7:9], [Gen 7:16], etc., and for כְּ, [Gen 19:8]; [Exo 12:35], etc.)
καθά , adv.
(for καθ᾿ ἅ ),
[in LXX : [Gen 7:9]; [Gen 19:8], al. (H834, כְּ ), [Isa 58:11], Wis 3:10 , al. ;]
just as, according as: [Mat 27:10] ( LXX ), [Luk 1:2], D ( cf. BL, § 78, 1; Phil. Gosp., 8 f .). †