kelev · dog

What it means

kelev (כֶּלֶב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dog”.

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. An animal that roams the city and eats what it finds, even carrion.
2. An insult: someone despicable.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• dog ×16
• dogs ×16

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×7
• 2 Kings×3
• Job×1
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1

• Exodus 11:7

  But against any of the sons of Israel not a dog will so much as move its tongue, against either man or beast, so that you may know that YHWH makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’

• Exodus 22:31

  You shall be holy men to me; flesh torn by beasts in the field you shall not eat; to the dogs you shall throw it.

• Deuteronomy 23:18

  You shall not bring the wages of a prostitute or the price of a dog into the house of YHWH your Elohim for any vow, for an abomination to YHWH your Elohim are both of them.

• Judges 7:5

  He brought the people down to the water, and YHWH said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water, as a dog laps, you shall set apart, and everyone who bends down on his knees to drink.”

• 1 Samuel 17:43

  The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with staffs?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

• 1 Samuel 24:14

  After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog! After a single flea!

• 2 Samuel 3:8

  Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth, and he said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I am doing loyal love with the house of Saul your father, with his brothers and with his companions, and I have not handed you over into the hand of David; and you call me to account today for the iniquity of the woman?

• 2 Samuel 9:8

  He bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should turn to a dead dog such as I?”

• 2 Samuel 16:9

  Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me cross over and take off his head.”

• 1 Kings 14:11

  Whoever of Jeroboam’s house dies in the city, the dogs will eat; and whoever dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat; for YHWH has spoken.’

• 1 Kings 16:4

  Whoever of Baasha’s house dies in the city, the dogs will eat; and whoever of his dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.”

• 1 Kings 21:19

  And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH: Have you murdered and also taken possession?’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH: In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, the dogs will lick up your blood, yours too.’”

• 1 Kings 21:23

  And also concerning Jezebel YHWH has spoken, saying, ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.

• 1 Kings 21:24

  Whoever of Ahab’s house dies in the city, the dogs will eat; and whoever dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.’”

• 1 Kings 22:38

  They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood —and the prostitutes bathed there— according to the word of YHWH that he had spoken.

• 2 Kings 8:13

  Hazael said, “But what is your servant, the dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha said, “YHWH has shown me you as king over Aram.”

• 2 Kings 9:10

  And Jezebel the dogs will eat in the portion of Jezreel, and there will be no one to bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.

• 2 Kings 9:36

  They came back and told him, and he said, “It is the word of YHWH that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the portion of Jezreel the dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel;

• Job 30:1

  But now they laugh at me, those younger than I in days, whose fathers I despised to put with the dogs of my flock.

• Psalms 22:16

  For dogs have surrounded me; a community of evildoers has encircled me; like a lion, my hands and my feet.

• Psalms 22:20

  Deliver my soul from the sword, from the hand of the dog my only one.

• Psalms 59:6

  They return at evening, they howl like the dog, and go around the city.

• Psalms 59:14

  And they return at evening, they howl like the dog, and go around the city.

• Psalms 68:23

  so that your foot may crush in blood, and the tongue of your dogs have its share from the enemies.”

• Proverbs 26:11

  Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a senseless man who repeats his folly.

• Proverbs 26:17

  One who seizes by the ears a dog is he who, passing by, becomes furious over a quarrel not his own.

• Ecclesiastes 9:4

  For whoever is joined to all the living has confidence, for a living dog is better than the dead lion.

• Isaiah 56:10

  His watchmen are blind, all of them; they do not know; all of them are mute dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, lovers of slumber.

• Isaiah 56:11

  And the dogs are strong of appetite, they do not know satisfaction; and they are shepherds who do not know how to understand; all of them have turned to their own way, each to his gain, without exception.

• Isaiah 66:3

  One who slaughters the ox, one who strikes a man; one who sacrifices the lamb, one who breaks the neck of a dog; one who presents an offering, the blood of a pig; one who makes a memorial of frankincense, one who blesses wickedness. They too have chosen their ways, and in their detestable things their soul delights.

• Jeremiah 15:3

  And I will appoint over them four kinds, declares YHWH: the sword to kill, and the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the heavens and the animals of the earth to devour and to destroy.

And 1 more times.