Word Study · Strong's H3619 · Hebrew
כְּלוּב
kelub
kel-oob'
Strong's 1890 spelling: kᵉlûwb
“a bird-trap (as furnished with a clap-stick or treadle to spring it)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a bird-trap (as furnished with a clap-stick or treadle to spring it); hence, a basket (as resembling a wicker cage)
Rendered in the KJV as
basket, cage.
- 3occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 3 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- כִּכְלוּב֙1
- כְּל֥וּב1
- כְּל֣וּב1
How it is rendered · 2
- a basket of2
- like a cage1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcmsc · 2
- HR/Ncmsa · 1
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The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Amos2 occurrences
- Amos 8:1כְּל֥וּבkeluvnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.here: a basket of
- Amos 8:2כְּל֣וּבkeluvnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”here: a basket of
Same headword in Strong's