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# כִּיס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3599

**bag** — used 5 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

bag [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3599/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּיס: n.m. bag, purse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3599/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 1:14 bag, purse (perhaps kindred with כּוֹם, q.v.; Arabic كِيسٌ (prob. from Pers. كِيسَهْ Lane 2640); Ethiopic ኪስ; NH כִּיס; Aramaic כִּיסָא, ܟܻܝܣܳܐ; Palm. מן כיסה from his purse = at his own expense, Vog p. 13 al.)—bag, in which were carried: weights (v. אֶבֶן 5) Dt 25:13; Mi 6:11; Pr 16:11; money, i.e. a purse Is 46:6; Pr 1:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a bag (3); bag (1); of \[the\] bag (1).

## In the verses

[Micah 6:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.6.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.6.11/#tree)

הַאֶזְכֶּ֖ה בְּמֹ֣אזְנֵי רֶ֑שַׁע וּבְכִ֖יס אַבְנֵ֥י מִרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* will I.be.clean? with balances of.wickedness and with a.bag of.weights of.deceit

*JPS 1917:* 'Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?'

[Proverbs 16:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.11/#tree)

פֶּ֤לֶס ׀ וּמֹאזְנֵ֣י מִ֭שְׁפָּט לַֽיהוָ֑ה מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗הוּ כָּל־אַבְנֵי־כִֽיס׃

*Word for word:* scale\[s\] and balances of.justice \[belong\].to Yahweh work \[are\].his all \[the\].weights of.\[the\].bag

*JPS 1917:* A just balance and scales are the LORD'S; all the weights of the bag are His work.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3599.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3599/): 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).