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# כְּלוּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3619

**basket** — used 3 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

basket [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3619/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּלוּב²: n.m. basket, cage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3619/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 5:27 basket, cage (√ dub.; NH id., כְּלִיבָה; Aramaic ܟܽܘܠܒܳܫܳܐ in Lexx.; Tel Am. kilubi, bird-net, cf. Zim ZA vi. 145, 147)—abs. כִּכְלוּבמָלֵא עוֹף Je 5:27 like a cage full of birds; cstr. כְּלוּב קַיִץ Am 8:1, 2 a basket of summer fruit.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a basket (2); a cage (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 8:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.8.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.8.1/#tree)

כֹּ֥ה הִרְאַ֖נִי אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה וְהִנֵּ֖ה כְּל֥וּב קָֽיִץ׃

*Word for word:* thus he showed.me Lord \[the\] Yahweh and there! a.basket of.summer.fruit

*JPS 1917:* Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and behold a basket of summer fruit.

[Jeremiah 5:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.27/#tree)

כִּכְלוּב֙ מָ֣לֵא ע֔וֹף כֵּ֥ן בָּתֵּיהֶ֖ם מְלֵאִ֣ים מִרְמָ֑ה עַל־כֵּ֥ן גָּדְל֖וּ וַֽיַּעֲשִֽׁירוּ׃

*Word for word:* like a.cage full bird\[s\] so houses their \[are\].full deceit therefore they.have.become.great and they.have.gained.riches

*JPS 1917:* As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; therefore they are become great, and waxen rich;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3619.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3619/): 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).