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Lexicon :: Strong's H3627 - kᵊlî

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כְּלִי
Transliteration
kᵊlî
Pronunciation
kel-ee'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 982g

Strong’s Definitions

כְּלִי kᵉlîy, kel-ee'; from H3615; something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon):—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.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 325x

The KJV translates Strong's H3627 in the following manner: vessel (166x), instrument (39x), weapon (21x), jewel (21x), armourbearer (with H5375) (18x), stuff (14x), thing (11x), armour (10x), furniture (7x), carriage (3x), bag (2x), miscellaneous (13x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 325x
The KJV translates Strong's H3627 in the following manner: vessel (166x), instrument (39x), weapon (21x), jewel (21x), armourbearer (with H5375) (18x), stuff (14x), thing (11x), armour (10x), furniture (7x), carriage (3x), bag (2x), miscellaneous (13x).
  1. article, vessel, implement, utensil

    1. article, object (general)

    2. utensil, implement, apparatus, vessel

      1. implement (of hunting or war)

      2. implement (of music)

      3. implement, tool (of labour)

      4. equipment, yoke (of oxen)

      5. utensils, furniture

    3. vessel, receptacle (general)

    4. vessels (boats) of paper-reed

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כְּלִי kᵉlîy, kel-ee'; from H3615; something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon):—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.
STRONGS H3627: Abbreviations
כְּלִי 324 noun masculineHosea 8:8 article, utensil, vessel (Late Hebrew id.; according to Thes from כלה = conficere, like German Zeug fromzeugen; properly therefore anything finished, made, produced; according to BaZMG 1887, 605 from meaning enclose, contain; he finds plural of כְּלִי in כלאי M-I23 (compare כלאים)) — כ׳ absolute Jeremiah 18:4 +; הַכֶּ֑לִי 1 Samuel 17:49; 1 Samuel 21:6; construct כְּלִי Hosea 13:15 +; suffix כֶּלְיְךָ Deuteronomy 23:25; plural כֵּלִים Exodus 22:6 +; construct כְּלֵי Genesis 24:53 +; suffix כֵּלַי Genesis 31:37 + 2 times; כֵּלֶיךָ Genesis 27:3; Ezekiel 12:4; כֵּלֵינוּ 1 Samuel 9:7; כְּלֵיכֶם Genesis 43:11 +; כְּלֵיהֶם Joshua 7:11 +; —
1. in general, article, object, made of any material, thing, especially thing of value זָהָב כ׳ 1 Samuel 6:8, 15 (images of mice, etc.), personal or household property Genesis 31:37 (twice in verse) (E; Genesis 31:37b כֹּל כְּלֵיבֵֿיתֶ֑ךָ), Genesis 45:20 (E), כְּלֵי בֵיתֿ טוֺבִיָּהוּ Nehemiah 13:18; Joshua 7:11 (JE), כֶּסֶף אוֺ כֵּלִים Exodus 22:6 (E) money or articles (property), כְּלִי־פָּ֑ז Job 28:17 (apparently collective); things carried, plural = stuff, load, baggage (impedimenta) 1 Samuel 17:22 (twice in verse), apparently = baggage-train 1 Samuel 10:22; 1 Samuel 25:13; 1 Samuel 30:24; Isaiah 10:28; (compare Genesis 31:37 above); כְּלֵי גוֺלָה things of exile, i.e. the most necessary articles, such as exiles may take, Jeremiah 46:19; Ezekiel 12:3, 4b; Ezekiel 12:7b, compare Ezekiel 12:4a, Ezekiel 12:7a; = ornaments or jewels Genesis 24:53 (J; זָהָב כֶסֶף וכ׳ כ׳, probably = ornaments), זהב כסף וכ׳ כ׳ also Exodus 3:22; Exodus 11:2; Exodus 12:35 (all E); Isaiah 61:10; Exodus 35:22; Numbers 31:50, כְּלֵי מַעֲשֶׂה Numbers 31:51 (all P), כְּלִי יְקָר Proverbs 20:15 (in figurative), תִפְאַרְתֵּךְ כ׳ Ezekiel 16:17, 39; Ezekiel 23:26 (all in figure); כְּלֵי נְחשֶׁת as merchandise Ezekiel 27:13; כֵּלִים as cargo of ship Jonah 1:5; כסף וזהב וּכְלֵי נְחשֶׁת וּבַרְזֶל Joshua 6:19, 24 (J E; spoil of war); of any household article (on which one sits) Leviticus 15:4, 6, 22, 23, 26 (all P); of skin Numbers 31:20, or wood Numbers 31:20 (P); כְּלִי חֶמְדָּה Nahum 2:10 precious thing, so Hosea 13:15 (figurative), Jeremiah 25:34 (simile), 2 Chronicles 32:27; Daniel 11:8, כלי חֲמֻדוֺת 2 Chronicles 20:25 (apparently = ornaments); also כְּלִי אֵיןחֵֿפֶץ בּוֺ Jeremiah 22:28 (figurative of Coniah, || עֶצֶב נִבְזֶה נָפוּץ), Hosea 8:8 (simile; compare Jeremiah 48:38 below); † specifically of garments (one's 'things'): כְּלִיגֶֿבֶר Deuteronomy 22:5 (|| שִׂמְלַת אִשָּׁה), so כְּלִיֿ עוֺר Leviticus 13:49 (compare מְלֶאכֶת עוֺר Leviticus 13:48), Leviticus 13:52; Leviticus 13:53; Leviticus 13:57; Leviticus 13:58; Leviticus 13:59 (all P).
2. utensil, implement, apparatus:
†a. implement of hunting and (especially) war, = weapon Genesis 27:3 (J), 1 Samuel 20:40; 1 Samuel 21:9 (גַּם חַרְבִּי וְגַם כֵּלַי), 1 Kings 11:8 2 Chronicles 23:7; 1 Kings 11:11; Isaiah 54:16, 17; Jeremiah 22:7; probably also Numbers 35:32, כְּלִי בַּרְזֶל Numbers 35:16, כְּלִי עֵץיָֿד Numbers 35:18 (all P); כְּלֵי חָמָם Genesis 49:5 (poem); כְּלִי מַשְׁחֵתוֺ Ezekiel 9:1, מַפָּצוֹ כ׳ Ezekiel 9:2; figurative of God's weapons כְּלֵימָֿוֶת Psalm 7:14 (|| חִצָּיו); זַעְמוֺ כ׳ Isaiah 13:5; Jeremiah 50:25; of entire equipment of warrior, armour or armament offensive and defensive 1 Samuel 17:54 (compare 1 Samuel 17:5ff.), 1 Samuel 21:6 (twice in verse) (see DrSm 139. 293), 1 Samuel 31:9, 10 = 1 Chronicles 10:9, 10; hence נשֵֹׁא כֵלִים (כֵּלָיוׅ armourweapon-bearer Judges 9:54; 1 Samuel 14:1, 6, 7, 12 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 14:13 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 14:14, 17; 1 Samuel 16:21; 1 Samuel 31:4 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 31:5, 6 = 1 Chronicles 10:4 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 10:5, 2 Samuel 18:15; 2 Samuel 23:37 = 1 Chronicles 11:39; figurative וְכֵלַי כֵּלָיו רָעִים Isaiah 32:7 and a knave, his weapons (i.e. devices, Che 'machinations') are evil; more precisely כְּלֵי מִלְחָמָה Judges 18:11, 16, 17; 1 Samuel 8:12; 2 Samuel 1:27; Deuteronomy 1:41; Jeremiah 21:4; Jeremiah 50:20 (figurative), Ezekiel 32:27; 1 Chronicles 12:34 [1 Chronicles 12:33] (van d. H 1 Chronicles 12:33 [1 Chronicles 12:32]); כְּלֵי צְבָא מִלְחָמָה 1 Chronicles 12:38 [1 Chronicles 12:37] (van d. H 1 Chronicles 12:37); כְּלֵי קְרָב Ecclesiastes 9:18; בֵּית כֵּלָיו 2 Kings 20:13 = Isaiah 39:2 is perhaps armoury; כ׳ Ezekiel 40:42 is sacrificial knife.
†b. instrument of music כְּלֵי (הַ)שִּׁיר Amos 6:5; 1 Chronicles 15:16; 1 Chronicles 16:42; 2 Chronicles 5:13; 7:6; 23:13; 34:12; כְּלֵי דָוִיד 2 Chronicles 29:26, 27, שִֿׁיר דָּוִיד כ׳ Nehemiah 12:36; כְּלִי נֶבֶל Psalm 71:22, נְבָלִים כ׳ 1 Chronicles 16:5; כֵּלִים alone 1 Chronicles 23:5, compare Numbers 31:6 (P; כְּלֵי הַקֹּדֶשׁ); — for בִּכְלֵי עֹז (ליהוהׅ 2 Chronicles 30:21 read בְּכָלעֹֿז (KauAT, compare Be).
†c. implement of labour, tool בַרְזֶל כ׳ 1 Kings 6:7, or of one's calling, pursuit קַחלְֿךָ כְּלִי רֹעֶה אֱוִלִי Zechariah 11:15 (otherwise 1 Samuel 17:40, see 3).
†d. equipment of oxen (yoke, etc.) 2 Samuel 24:22; 1 Kings 19:21.
†e. כְּלֵי רִכְכּוֺ 1 Samuel 8:22 his chariot-equipments.
f. as general term for utensils and furniture of Solomon's palace 1 Kings 10:21 2 Chronicles 9:20; especially (very often) of tabernacle Exodus 25:9, 39; Exodus 27:3 + — 1 Kings 7:45, 47, 48; 2 Kings 12:14 +; of both palace and temple Jeremiah 27:18, 19, 21; combinations are כְּלֵי הַמִּשְׁכָּן Exodus 27:19, הַמִּזְבֵּחַ כ׳ Exodus 38:3, יהוה כ׳ Isaiah 52:11, בֵית י׳ כ׳ Jeremiah 27:16; Jeremiah 28:3, 6; Ezra 1:7, כְּלֵי חֶמְדַּת בֵּית י׳ 2 Chronicles 36:10, בֵית כ׳ אֱלֹהִים 2 Chronicles 28:24 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 36:18; Nehemiah 13:9; Daniel 1:2, הַמִּקְדָּשׁ כ׳ Nehemiah 10:40; הַשָּׁרֵת כ׳ Numbers 4:12 utensil of ministry, עֲבֹדָתָם כ׳ Numbers 4:26; 1 Chronicles 9:28; 1 Chronicles 28:14 (twice in verse), עֲבוֺדַת בֵּית י׳ כ׳ 1 Chronicles 28:13, מִשְׁמֶרֶת מַשָּׂאָם כ׳ Numbers 4:32; also הַקֹּדֶשׁ כ׳ 1 Kings 8:4; 1 Chronicles 9:29; of appliances of idol-workship 2 Kings 23:4.
3. vessel, receptacle, of various materials and for various purposes Genesis 43:11 (J); 1 Samuel 9:7; Deuteronomy 23:25; = sack Genesis 42:25 (E; שַׂק in || clause, compare אַמְתַּחַת Genesis 42:27); כְּלִי הָרֹעִים shepherd's bag or wallet 1 Samuel 17:40, compare 1 Samuel 17:49; חֶרֶשׂ כ׳ Jeremiah 32:14 is earthen-ware receptacle for deed of sale; for liquids 1 Kings 17:10; 2 Kings 4:3 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 4:4, 6 (3 times in verse), מַשְׁקֶה כ׳ 1 Kings 10:21 2 Chronicles 9:20, כְּלֵי שַׁמְנָהּ Numbers 4:9, compare Numbers 4:10; וְלֹא הוּרַק מִכְּלִי אֶלכֶּֿ֑לִי Jeremiah 48:11 (figurative), compare Jeremiah 48:12 (|| נְבָלִים); for cooking Leviticus 6:21 (חֶרֶשׂ כ׳), Leviticus 6:21 (נְחשֶׁת כ׳); see also (הַ)יּוֺצֵר 2 Samuel 17:28; Jeremiah 19:11 (simile), Psalm 2:9 (simile), לַצֹּרֵף כֶּ֑לִי Proverbs 25:4; כ׳ פָתוּחַ Numbers 19:15 an open (uncovered) vessel. טָהוֺר כ׳ Isaiah 66:20 a clean vessel; figurative of Eliakim's relatives כְּלֵי הַקָּטָ֑ן מִכְּלֵי הָאַגָּנוֺת וְעַד כָּלכְּֿלֵי הַנְּבָלִים Isaiah 22:24 the vessels of smallness (DaSynt. § 32, R. 5), from the basin-vessels to all the pitcher-vessels.
4. specifically כְּלֵיגֹֿמֶא Isaiah 18:2 vessels (boats) of paper-reed.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

24:53; 24:53; 27:3; 27:3; 31:37; 31:37; 31:37; 31:37; 42:25; 42:27; 43:11; 43:11; 45:20; 49:5

Exodus

3:22; 11:2; 12:35; 22:6; 22:6; 25:9; 25:39; 27:3; 27:19; 35:22; 38:3

Leviticus

6:21; 6:21; 13:48; 13:49; 13:52; 13:53; 13:57; 13:58; 13:59; 15:4; 15:6; 15:22; 15:23; 15:26

Numbers

4:9; 4:10; 4:12; 4:26; 4:32; 19:15; 31:6; 31:20; 31:20; 31:50; 31:51; 35:16; 35:18; 35:32

Deuteronomy

1:41; 22:5; 23:25; 23:25

Joshua

6:19; 6:24; 7:11; 7:11

Judges

9:54; 18:11; 18:16; 18:17

1 Samuel

6:8; 6:15; 8:12; 8:22; 9:7; 9:7; 10:22; 14:1; 14:6; 14:7; 14:12; 14:13; 14:14; 14:17; 16:21; 17:5; 17:22; 17:40; 17:40; 17:49; 17:49; 17:54; 20:40; 21:6; 21:6; 21:9; 25:13; 30:24; 31:4; 31:5; 31:6; 31:9; 31:10

2 Samuel

1:27; 17:28; 18:15; 23:37; 24:22

1 Kings

6:7; 7:45; 7:47; 7:48; 8:4; 10:21; 10:21; 11:8; 11:11; 17:10; 19:21

2 Kings

4:3; 4:4; 4:6; 12:14; 20:13; 23:4

1 Chronicles

9:28; 9:29; 10:4; 10:5; 10:9; 10:10; 11:39; 12:32; 12:33; 12:37; 12:37; 15:16; 16:5; 16:42; 23:5; 28:13; 28:14

2 Chronicles

5:13; 7:6; 9:20; 9:20; 20:25; 23:7; 23:13; 28:24; 29:26; 29:27; 30:21; 32:27; 34:12; 36:10; 36:18

Ezra

1:7

Nehemiah

12:36; 13:9; 13:18

Job

28:17

Psalms

2:9; 7:14; 71:22

Proverbs

20:15; 25:4

Ecclesiastes

9:18

Isaiah

10:28; 13:5; 18:2; 22:24; 32:7; 39:2; 52:11; 54:16; 54:17; 61:10; 66:20

Jeremiah

18:4; 19:11; 21:4; 22:7; 22:28; 25:34; 27:16; 27:18; 27:19; 27:21; 28:3; 28:6; 32:14; 46:19; 48:11; 48:12; 48:38; 50:20; 50:25

Ezekiel

9:1; 9:2; 12:3; 12:4; 12:4; 12:4; 12:7; 12:7; 16:17; 16:39; 23:26; 27:13; 32:27; 40:42

Daniel

1:2; 11:8

Hosea

8:8; 8:8; 13:15; 13:15

Amos

6:5

Jonah

1:5

Nahum

2:10

Zechariah

11:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3627 matches the Hebrew כְּלִי (kᵊlî),
which occurs 27 times in 25 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:3 -

“Their mighty ones have sent their [fn]underlings for water;

They have come to the trenches and found no water.

They have returned with their vessels H3627 empty;

They have been put to shame and dishonored,

And they cover their heads.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - But the vessel H3627 that he was making of clay was ruined in the hand of the potter, so he turned around and made it into another vessel H3627, according to what was right in the eyes of the potter to make.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:11 - and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “Just so will I break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter’s vessel H3627, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury in Topheth [fn]because there is no other place for burial.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons H3627 of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the center of this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:7 -

“For I will set apart destroyers against you,

Each with his weapons H3627;

And they will cut down your choicest cedars

And throw them on the fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:28 -

“Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar?

Or is he an undesirable vessel H3627?

Why have he and his seed been hurled out

And cast into a land that they had not known?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 -

“Wail, you shepherds, and cry out;

And roll yourselves in ashes, you masters of the flock;

For the days of your slaughter and your scatterings are being fulfilled,

And you will fall like a desirable vessel H3627.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:16 -

Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says Yahweh: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels H3627 of the house of Yahweh will now shortly be returned from Babylon’; for they are prophesying a lie to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:18 - “But if they are prophets, and if the word of Yahweh is with them, let them now intercede with Yahweh of hosts that the vessels H3627 which are left in the house of Yahweh, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:19 - “For thus says Yahweh of hosts concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the stands, and concerning the rest of the vessels H3627 that are left in this city,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:21 - “Indeed, thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels H3627 that are left in the house of Yahweh and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:3 - ‘Within two years I am going to return to this place all the vessels H3627 of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:6 - and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May Yahweh do so; may Yahweh establish your words which you have prophesied to return the vessels H3627 of the house of Yahweh and all the exiles, from Babylon to this place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:14 - ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Take these deeds—this deed of purchase—that is the sealed one as well as this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar H3627, that they may [fn]last a long time.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:10 - “Now as for me, behold, I am going to stay at Mizpah to stand for you before the Chaldeans who come to us; but as for you, gather in wine and summer fruit and oil and put them in your storage vessels H3627 and stay in your cities that you have seized.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19 -

“Make your baggage H3627 ready for exile,

O inhabitant of the daughter of Egypt,

For Memphis will become a desolation;

It will even be turned into ruin and without inhabitants.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:11 -

“Moab has been at ease since his youth;

He has also had quiet, like wine on [fn]its dregs,

And he has not been emptied from vessel H3627 to vessel H3627,

Nor has he gone into exile.

Therefore [fn]he retains his flavor,

And his aroma has not changed.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:12 -

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels H3627 and shatter [fn]his jars.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:38 - “On all the rooftops of Moab and in its open squares [fn]there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable vessel H3627,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:29 -

“They will take away their tents and their flocks;

They will carry off for themselves

Their tent curtains, all their goods H3627, and their camels,

And they will call out to one another, ‘Terror on every side!’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:25 -

Yahweh has opened His armory

And has brought forth the weapons H3627 of His indignation,

For it is a work of Lord Yahweh of hosts

In the land of the Chaldeans.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:20 -

He says, “You are My instrument of shattering, My weapon H3627 of war;

And with you I shatter nations,

And with you I destroy kingdoms.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 -

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and brought me into confusion;

He has set me down like an empty vessel H3627;

He has swallowed me like a sea monster;

He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;

He has rinsed me away.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:18 - They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the bowls, the [fn]pans, and all the bronze vessels H3627 which were used to minister.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:20 - The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under [fn]the sea, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh—the bronze of all these vessels H3627 was beyond weight.
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