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# כִּלְיוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3630

**Chilion** — 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

Chilion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3630/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּלְיוֹן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3630/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. one of Naomi’s sons Ru 1:2, 5; 4:9, 𝔊 Κελαιων, Χελαιων, Χελεων, 𝔊L Χελλαιων (on etym. cf. Jer.; vid. LagOnom. ed. 2, 62, 5).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kilion (3).

## In the verses

[Ruth 1:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.5/#tree)

וַיָּמ֥וּתוּ גַם־שְׁנֵיהֶ֖ם מַחְל֣וֹן וְכִלְי֑וֹן וַתִּשָּׁאֵר֙ הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה מִשְּׁנֵ֥י יְלָדֶ֖יהָ וּמֵאִישָֽׁהּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.died also both of.them Mahlon and Kilion and she.was.left the woman from both children her and from husband her

*JPS 1917:* And Mahlon and Chilion died both of them; and the woman was left of her two children and of her husband.

[Ruth 1:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.1.2/#tree)

וְשֵׁ֣ם הָאִ֣ישׁ אֱ‍ֽלִימֶ֡לֶךְ וְשֵׁם֩ אִשְׁתּ֨וֹ נָעֳמִ֜י וְשֵׁ֥ם שְׁנֵֽי־בָנָ֣יו ׀ מַחְל֤וֹן וְכִלְיוֹן֙ אֶפְרָתִ֔ים מִבֵּ֥ית לֶ֖חֶם בֵּ֥ית לֶ֖חֶם יְהוּדָ֑ה וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ שְׂדֵי־מוֹאָ֖ב וַיִּֽהְיוּ־שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* and the.name of the.man \[was\].Elimelech and the.name his.wife his \[was\].Naomi and the.name of.the.two sons his \[was\].Mahlon and Kilion Ephrathites from Bethlehem Bethlehem Judah and they.came the.region(s) of.Moab and they.were there

*JPS 1917:* And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem in Judah. And they came into the field of Moab, and continued there.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3630/): 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).