כְּלִי
kᵉlîy · kel-ee'
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3615 (כָּלָה);
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: armour(-bearer), artillery, bag, carriage, [phrase] furnish, furniture, instrument, jewel, that is made of, [idiom] one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, [phrase] psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, [phrase] whatsoever.
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › authority, the one who leads › the hand that works
The open hand that covers of authority, the one who leads of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כְּלִי above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
325 occurrences · 325 OT · 0 NT · 129 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- vessels21 · 13%
- vessel15 · 9%
- and all the vessels13 · 8%
- all the vessels12 · 8%
- the vessels11 · 7%
- and vessels10 · 6%
- jewels10 · 6%
- and the vessels9 · 6%
- and his armourbearer7 · 4%
- and all his vessels6 · 4%
- his armour6 · 4%
- instruments5 · 3%
- with his weapons4 · 3%
- and jewels4 · 3%
- and all the instruments3 · 2%
- the instruments3 · 2%
- of the vessels3 · 2%
- with the instruments3 · 2%
- weapon3 · 2%
- and the vessel2 · 1%
- or any thing2 · 1%
- or in any thing2 · 1%
- with all his furniture2 · 1%
- and his furniture2 · 1%
- stuff2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.