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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 armour—weapon-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

H3627

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Strong's Number H3627 matches the Hebrew כְּלִי (kᵊlî),
which occurs 325 times in 276 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 6 / 6 (Jer 50:25–Zec 11:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:25 - The LORD has opened His armory,
And has brought out the weapons of His indignation;
For this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts
In the land of the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:20 - “You are My battle-ax and weapons of war:
For with you I will break the nation in pieces;
With you I will destroy kingdoms;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 - “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
Has devoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an empty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:18 - They also took away the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the bowls, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:20 - The two pillars, one Sea, the twelve bronze bulls which were under it, and the carts, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD—the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:9 - “Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1 - Then He called out in my hearing with a loud voice, saying, “Let those who have charge over the city draw near, each with a deadly weapon in his hand.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:2 - And suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his battle-ax in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen and had a writer’s inkhorn at his side. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:3 - “Therefore, son of man, prepare your belongings for captivity, and go into captivity by day in their sight. You shall go from your place into captivity to another place in their sight. It may be that they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:4 - “By day you shall bring out your belongings in their sight, as though going into captivity; and at evening you shall go in their sight, like those who go into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:7 - So I did as I was commanded. I brought out my belongings by day, as though going into captivity, and at evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought them out at twilight, and I bore them on my shoulder in their sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:3 - “Is wood taken from it to make any object? Or can men make a peg from it to hang any vessel on?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:17 - “You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39 - “I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:26 - They shall also strip you of your clothes
And take away your beautiful jewelry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:13 - “Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They bartered human lives and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:27 - They do not lie with the mighty
Who are fallen of the uncircumcised,
Who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war;
They have laid their swords under their heads,
But their iniquities will be on their bones,
Because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:42

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:42 - There were also four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, one cubit and a half long, one cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high; on these they laid the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:2 - And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the articles of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the articles into the treasure house of his god.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:8 - “And he shall also carry their gods captive to Egypt, with their princes[fn] and their precious articles of silver and gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the North.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:8 - Israel is swallowed up;
Now they are among the Gentiles
Like a vessel in which is no pleasure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:15 - Though he is fruitful among his brethren,
An east wind shall come;
The wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness.
Then his spring shall become dry,
And his fountain shall be dried up.
He shall plunder the treasury of every desirable prize.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:5 - Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments,
And invent for yourselves musical instruments like David;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:5 - Then the mariners were afraid; and every man cried out to his god, and threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten the load.[fn] But Jonah had gone down into the lowest parts of the ship, had lain down, and was fast asleep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:9 - Take spoil of silver!
Take spoil of gold!
There is no end of treasure,
Or wealth of every desirable prize.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:15 - And the LORD said to me, “Next, take for yourself the implements of a foolish shepherd.

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