כְּלוּב
keluv · cage, basket
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3619 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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keluv (כְּלוּב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cage, basket”.
Cage or basket where caught birds are kept.
How to say it
ke·luv
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
- A closed basket where captured birds are kept alive.
- A basket for carrying or keeping summer fruit.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- basket ×2
- Like a cage ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Jeremiah 5:27
Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.
- Amos 8:1
Thus Adonai YHWH showed me: and look, a basket of summer fruit.
- Amos 8:2
And he said, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” And YHWH said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will no longer pass by him.