kleis · key

What it means

kleis (κλείς) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “key”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Tool for opening locks; an image of the power to open and shut.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• key ×4
• keys ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Luke×1
• Revelation×4

• Matthew 16:19

  I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will have been loosed in heaven.”

• Luke 11:52

  Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and those who were entering you hindered.”

• Revelation 1:18

  and the living one; and I was dead, and look, I am alive to the ages of the ages, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

• Revelation 3:7

  And to the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: This is what the Holy One, the True One, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and shuts and no one opens, says:

• Revelation 9:1

  And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth; and the key of the shaft of the abyss was given to him.

• Revelation 20:1

  And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.