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# כִּילַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3596

**knave** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

knave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3596/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּילַי²: n.m. knave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3596/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. knave (for נְכִילַי v. Köii. 1, 118);—abs. כִּילי Is 32:5 (opp. שׁוֹעַ, ‖ נָבָל); כֵּלַי v 7 (assonance with כֵּלָיו, from כְּלִי q.v.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a scoundrel (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 32:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.5/#tree)

לֹֽא־יִקָּרֵ֥א ע֛וֹד לְנָבָ֖ל נָדִ֑יב וּלְכִילַ֕י לֹ֥א יֵֽאָמֵ֖ר שֽׁוֹעַ׃

*Word for word:* not it.will.be.called again to a.fool noble and of a.scoundrel not it.will.be.said a.noble.person

*JPS 1917:* The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be noble.

[Isaiah 32:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.7/#tree)

וְכֵלַ֖י כֵּלָ֣יו רָעִ֑ים ה֚וּא זִמּ֣וֹת יָעָ֔ץ לְחַבֵּ֤ל עֲנִיִּים֙ בְּאִמְרֵי־שֶׁ֔קֶר וּבְדַבֵּ֥ר אֶבְי֖וֹן מִשְׁפָּֽט׃

*Word for word:* and a.scoundrel weapons his \[are\].evil he evil.purposes he.plans to ruin afflicted.\[people\] with words of.falsehood and when speaks \[the\].needy justice

*JPS 1917:* The instruments also of the churl are evil; he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, and the needy when he speaketh right.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3596.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3596/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).