כִּיס
kis · bag, purse
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3599 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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kis (כִּיס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bag, purse”.
A bag in which weights or money were carried; also a cup.
How to say it
kis
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 small sack for carrying weights or money.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- bag ×3
- purse ×2
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 25:13
You shall not have in your bag a weight and a weight, a large and a small.
- Proverbs 1:14
cast your lot among us; one purse there will be for all of us”;
- Proverbs 16:11
The balance and the scales of justice are YHWH’s; his work are all the stones of the bag.
- Isaiah 46:6
Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh silver on the rod of the scale, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; they fall down, also they bow down.
- Micah 6:11
Shall I be pure with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?