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Word Study · Strong's H3627 · Hebrew

כְּלִי

keli

kel-ee'

Strong's 1890 spelling: kᵉlîy

something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)

Rendered in the KJV as

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.

  • 325
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 30 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 129
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 325 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 129

  • כְּלֵ֣י26
  • כְּלֵ֥י15
  • כְּלִי־12
  • כֵּלָ֔יו12
  • הַכֵּלִ֔ים11
  • כְּלֵ֖י11
  • כֵּלָ֑יו11
  • וּכְלֵ֥י8
  • כְּלִ֣י7
  • כְּלֵי־7
  • בִּכְלֵי־6
  • כְּלִ֥י5

and 117 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 104

  • [the] articles of31
  • articles its26
  • the articles14
  • article of12
  • articles of12
  • and articles of11
  • [the] vessels of10
  • weapons his10
  • armors his9
  • the vessels8
  • [the] utensils of7
  • [the] weapons of7

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 30

  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)83
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular51
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural33
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)27
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)22
  • noun · masculine singular15
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)15
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)9
  • noun · masculine plural7
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular7
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural6
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular6
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmpc · 83
  • HNcmpc/Sp3ms · 51
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 33
  • HNcmsc · 27
  • HC/Ncmpc · 22
  • HNcmsa · 15
  • HR/Ncmpc · 15
  • HR/Ncmsc · 9
  • HNcmpa · 7
  • HNcmpc/Sp3fs · 7
  • HNcmpc/Sp3mp · 6
  • HR/Ncmsa · 6

All 325, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Exodus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis9 occurrences
Exodus34 occurrences
Leviticus22 occurrences
Numbers31 occurrences
Deuteronomy3 occurrences
Joshua3 occurrences
Judges4 occurrences
Ruth1 occurrence
1 Samuel33 occurrences
2 Samuel8 occurrences
1 Kings13 occurrences
2 Kings17 occurrences
1 Chronicles23 occurrences
2 Chronicles33 occurrences
Ezra10 occurrences
Nehemiah5 occurrences
Esther3 occurrences
Job1 occurrence
Psalms4 occurrences
Proverbs2 occurrences
Ecclesiastes1 occurrence
Isaiah14 occurrences
Jeremiah27 occurrences
Ezekiel15 occurrences
Daniel3 occurrences
Hosea2 occurrences
Amos1 occurrence
Jonah1 occurrence
Nahum1 occurrence
Zechariah1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).