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Lexicon :: Strong's H3611 - keleḇ

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כֶּלֶב
Transliteration
keleḇ
Pronunciation
keh'-leb
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root means. to yelp, or else to attack
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 981a

Strong’s Definitions

כֶּלֶב keleb, keh'-leb; from an unused root means. to yelp, or else to attack; a dog; hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute:—dog.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's H3611 in the following manner: dog (32x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's H3611 in the following manner: dog (32x).

  1. dog

    1. dog (literal)

    2. contempt or abasement (fig.)

    3. of pagan sacrifice

    4. of male cult prostitute (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כֶּלֶב keleb, keh'-leb; from an unused root means. to yelp, or else to attack; a dog; hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute:—dog.
STRONGS H3611: Abbreviations
† כֶּ֫לֶב noun masculine1Sam 24:15 dog (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician כלב; Aramaic כַּלְבָּא, bdb047611, Arabic bdb047612; Ethiopic bdb047613 Assyrian kalbu DlHWB 328) — absolute כ׳ Judges 7:5 + 16 times, כָּ֑לֶב Psalm 59:7; Psalm 59:15; plural כְּלָבִים 1 Kings 14:11 + 12 times; construct כַּלְבֵי Job 30:1; suffix כְּלָבֶיךָ Psalm 68:24; — dog:
a. literal 1 Kings 14:11; 1 Kings 16:4; 1 Kings 21:19 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 21:23, 24; 1 Kings 22:38; 2 Kings 9:10, 36 (all of fierce, hungry dogs, devouring dead bodies and licking blood); compare Jeremiah 15:3 and (לְשׁוֺן כְּלָבֶיךָ) Psalm 68:24; eating torn flesh, Exodus 22:30 (E), כַּלְבֵי צאֹנִי = my sheep-dogs, only Job 30:1 (in both these with implied inferiority); dog-sacrifice was a heathen rite Isaiah 66:3 (Di and others); see especially RSSemitic i, 273 (291), 325 (343); invarious simile Judges 7:5; Proverbs 26:11, 17; Psalm 59:7; Psalm 59:15; in proverbial sayings: לֹא לִשֹׁנוֺ יֶחֱרַץכֿ׳ Exodus 11:7 (see I. חרץ); מֵת טוֺב מִןֿ לְכ׳ הָאַרְיֵה הַמֵּת Ecclesiastes 9:4.
b. applied, figurative, to men, in contempt 1 Samuel 17:43, so of psalmist's enemies Psalm 22:17; Psalm 22:21, or in excessive humility 2 Kings 8:13; still more emphatically מֵת כ׳ a dead dog, הַמֵּת הַכּ׳ 2 Samuel 9:8; 2 Samuel 16:9; also ראֹשׁ כ׳ 2 Samuel 3:8; כְּלָבִים אִלְּמִים Isaiah 56:10 (of misleading prophets), עַזֵּי נֶפֶשׁ הַכּ׳ Isaiah 56:11 (id.); כ׳ was name given to male temple-prostitutes Deuteronomy 23:19 (see Dr; compare H6945 קָדֵשׁ).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

11:7; 22:30

Deuteronomy

23:19

Judges

7:5; 7:5

1 Samuel

17:43; 24:15

2 Samuel

3:8; 9:8; 16:9

1 Kings

14:11; 14:11; 16:4; 21:19; 21:23; 21:24; 22:38

2 Kings

8:13; 9:10; 9:36

Job

30:1; 30:1

Psalms

22:17; 22:21; 59:7; 59:7; 59:15; 59:15; 68:24; 68:24

Proverbs

26:11; 26:17

Ecclesiastes

9:4

Isaiah

56:10; 56:11; 66:3

Jeremiah

15:3

H3611

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Strong's Number H3611 matches the Hebrew כֶּלֶב (keleḇ),
which occurs 32 times in 31 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:7 - ‘But for any of the sons of Israel a dog H3611 will not even [fn]bark, whether against man or beast, that you may know how Yahweh makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:31 -

“You shall be holy men to Me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh torn to pieces in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs H3611.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18 - “You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a [fn]dog H3611 into the house of Yahweh your God for any votive offering, for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - So he brought the people down to the water. And Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog H3611 laps, you shall set him aside by himself, and so also everyone who kneels to drink.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:43 - And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog H3611, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:14 - “After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog H3611, after a single flea?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:8 - Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I a dog’s H3611 head that belongs to Judah? Today I show lovingkindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hands of David; and yet today you charge me with a guilt concerning the woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:8 - So he prostrated himself and said, “What is your servant, that you should regard a dead dog H3611 like me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:9 -

Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog H3611 curse my lord the king? Let me pass over now and remove his head.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:11 - “Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs H3611 will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the sky will eat; for Yahweh has spoken it.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:4 - “Anyone of Baasha who dies in the city the dogs H3611 will eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the sky will eat.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19 - “And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Have you murdered and also taken possession?”’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “In the place where the dogs H3611 licked up the blood of Naboth the dogs H3611 will lick up your blood, even yours.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:23 - “Of Jezebel also has Yahweh spoken, saying, ‘The dogs H3611 will eat Jezebel in the [fn]district of Jezreel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:24 - “The one belonging to Ahab, who dies in the city, the dogs H3611 will eat, and the one who dies in the field the birds of the sky will eat.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:38 - And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs H3611 licked up his blood (now the harlots bathed themselves there), according to the word of Yahweh which He spoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:13 - Then Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog H3611, that he should do this great thing?” And Elisha [fn]answered, “Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:10 - ‘And the dogs H3611 shall eat Jezebel in the [fn]property of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36 - Therefore they returned and declared it to him. And he said, “This is the word of Yahweh, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the [fn]property of Jezreel the dogs H3611 shall eat the flesh of Jezebel;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:1 -

“But now those younger than I laugh at me,

Whose fathers I rejected even to put with the dogs H3611 of my flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:16 -

For dogs H3611 have surrounded me;

[fn]A band of evildoers has encompassed me;

[fn]They pierced my hands and my feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:20 -

Deliver my [fn]soul from the sword,

My only life from the [fn]power of the dog H3611.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 59:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:6 -

They return at evening, they howl like a dog H3611,

And go around the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 59:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:14 -

They return at evening, they howl like a dog H3611,

And go around the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:23 -

That [fn]your foot may crush them in blood,

The tongue of your dogs H3611 may have its portion from your enemies.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:11 -

Like a dog H3611 that returns to its vomit

Is a fool who repeats [fn]his folly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:17 -

Like one who seizes a dog H3611 by the ears

Is he who passes by and becomes passionate about strife not belonging to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:4 - For whoever is joined with all the living, there is confidence; surely a live dog H3611 is better than a dead lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 56:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:10 -

His watchmen are blind;

All of them know nothing.

All of them are mute dogs H3611 unable to bark,

[fn]Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;

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And the dogs H3611 have a strong [fn]appetite; they do not know satisfaction.

And they are shepherds who do not know understanding;

They have all turned to their own way,

Each one to his greedy gain, to the last one.

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“But he who slaughters an ox is the one who strikes down a man;

He who sacrifices a lamb is the one who breaks a dog’s H3611 neck;

He who offers a grain offering is the one who offers swine’s blood;

He who offers a memorial offering of frankincense is the one who blesses wickedness.

As they have chosen their own ways,

And their soul takes pleasure in their detestable things,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 -

“I will appoint over them four kinds of doom,” declares Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the dogs H3611 to drag off, and the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and bring to ruin.

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