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Hosea 6:7, “But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me”(ESV). The phrase “like Adam” is questionable, whether it is a personal name or a local term. Until now, scholars suggested very different ideas: (1) Adam as a proper name, (2) Adam as a city name, (3) the ancient city Admah on the base of a textual emendation, and (4) ‘dirty’ on the base of a textual emendation. In order to solve this problem, the researcher takes the usage of the Hebrew preposition kə as his starting point. Its usage could be divided to nine rubrics. R1: comparison, R2: similarity, R3: imitation, R4: situational repetition, R5: mental realization, R6: announcement and fulfillment, R7: demand and fulfillment, R8: temporal use (immediate sequence), and R9: quantitative use. According to a philological argument, the relevant prepositional use of Hosea 6:7a should be definitively ascribed to R4. Also, this conclusion can be asserted by verbal- syntactical (asyndesis) and syntactical (casus pendens) analyses.