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כְּלִי

ke.liarticle/utensilHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine325 occurrences30 books276 verses

Definition

from H3615; something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
Traditional renderings: armour(-bearer), artillery, bag, carriage, furnish, furniture, instrument, jewel, that is made of, × one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, whatsoever.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders כְּלִי:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

325 total
  1. Esther 1:7וְכֵלִ֖ים · each; מִכֵּלִ֣ים
    Beverages were served in an array of goblets of gold, each with a different design, and the royal wine flowed freely, according to the king’s bounty.
  2. Job 28:17כְּלִי־ · nor jewels
    Neither gold nor crystal can compare to it, nor jewels of fine gold be exchanged for it.
  3. Psalm 2:9כִּכְלִ֖י
    You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
  4. Psalm 7:13כְּלֵי־ · weapons
    He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
  5. Psalm 31:12כִּכְלִ֥י · vessel
    I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
  6. Psalm 71:22בִכְלִי־ · with the harp
    So I will praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.
  7. Proverbs 20:15וּכְלִ֥י · treasure
    There is an abundance of gold and rubies, but lips of knowledge are a rare treasure.
  8. Proverbs 25:4כֶּֽלִי׃ · and a vessel
    Remove the dross from the silver, and a vessel for a silversmith will come forth.
  9. Ecclesiastes 9:18מִכְּלֵ֣י · than weapons
    Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
  10. Isaiah 10:28כֵּלָֽיו׃ · their supplies
    Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.
  11. Isaiah 13:5וּכְלֵ֣י · and the weapons
    They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.
  12. Isaiah 18:2וּבִכְלֵי־ · vessels
    …which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
  13. Isaiah 22:24כְּלֵ֣י · vessels; מִכְּלֵי֙; כְּלֵ֥י
    So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.
  14. Isaiah 32:7כֵּלָ֣יו · The weapons
    The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
  15. Isaiah 39:2כֵּלָ֔יו
    And Hezekiah welcomed the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his entire armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
  16. Isaiah 52:11כְּלֵ֥י · the vessels
    Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
  17. Isaiah 54:16כְלִ֖י · a weapon
    Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.
  18. Isaiah 54:17כְּלִ֞י · weapon
    No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
  19. Isaiah 61:10כֵלֶֽיהָ׃ · with her jewels
    I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
  20. Isaiah 65:4כְּלֵיהֶֽם׃ · from their bowls
    …sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.
  21. Isaiah 66:20בִּכְלִ֥י · vessel
    And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.”
  22. Jeremiah 14:3כְלֵיהֶם֙ · their jars
    The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
  23. Jeremiah 18:4הַכְּלִ֗י · But the vessel; כְּלִ֣י · vessel
    But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
  24. Jeremiah 19:11כְּלִ֣י · jar
    …and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
  25. Jeremiah 21:4כְּלֵ֣י · the weapons
    …this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
  26. Jeremiah 22:7וְכֵלָ֑יו · with his weapons
    I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.
  27. Jeremiah 22:28כְּלִ֔י · a jar
    Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
  28. Jeremiah 25:34כִּכְלִ֥י · pottery
    Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.
  29. Jeremiah 27:16כְלֵ֧י · the articles
    Then I said to the priests and to all this people, “This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Look, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.’ They are prophesying to you a lie.
  30. Jeremiah 27:18הַכֵּלִ֣ים׀ · that the articles
    If they are indeed prophets and the word of the LORD is with them, let them now plead with the LORD of Hosts that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, not be taken to Babylon.
  31. Jeremiah 27:19הַכֵּלִ֔ים · of the articles
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,
  32. Jeremiah 27:21הַכֵּלִ֗ים · the articles
    Yes, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about the articles that remain in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:
  33. Jeremiah 28:3כְּלֵ֖י · the articles
    Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and carried to Babylon.
  34. Jeremiah 28:6כְּלֵ֤י · the articles
    “Amen!” Jeremiah said. “May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied, and may He restore the articles of His house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.
  35. Jeremiah 32:14בִּכְלִי־ · jar
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.
  36. Jeremiah 40:10בִּכְלֵיכֶ֔ם · in your storage jars
    As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”
  37. Jeremiah 46:19כְּלֵ֤י · your bags
    Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.
  38. Jeremiah 48:11מִכְּלִי֙ · from vessel; כֶּ֔לִי · vessel
    Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
  39. Jeremiah 48:12וְכֵלָ֣יו · his vessels
    Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.
  40. Jeremiah 48:38כִּכְלִ֛י · jar
    On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.
  41. Jeremiah 49:29כְּלֵיהֶ֛ם · their goods
    They will take their tents and flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods. They will take their camels for themselves. They will shout to them: ‘Terror is on every side!’
  42. Jeremiah 50:25כְּלֵ֣י · His weapons
    The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
  43. Jeremiah 51:20כְּלֵ֖י · My weapon
    “You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
  44. Jeremiah 51:34כְּלִ֣י · vessel
    “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
  45. Jeremiah 52:18כְּלֵ֧י · the articles
    They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.