כְּלִי keli

Hebrew word for “article/utensil” · Strong’s H3627 · used 325 times in 276 verses

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Meaning

1) article, vessel, implement, utensil;

How it is translated

Glosses given for keli in context, with how often each is used:

• articles 100
• vessels 41
• weapons 32
• vessel 32
• article 22
• utensils 18
• armors 13
• instruments 13
• equipments 10
• baggages 10
• armor 6
• weapon 5

Where it is used

Also in 18 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 4 (8), 1 Samuel 14 (7), Leviticus 13 (6), Leviticus 15 (6), Ezra 8 (6), Exodus 39 (5), 1 Samuel 31 (5), Exodus 35 (4), Numbers 31 (4), 1 Samuel 17 (4)

Forms

• כלי 128
• כליו 51
• הכלים 33
• וכלי 27
• בכלי 22
• כלים 7
• כליה 7
• ככלי 7
• כליהם 6
• הכלי 6

Words used with it

Words that share verses with keli more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• זָהָב zahav “gold” 50
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 39
• נְחֹשֶׁת nechoshet “bronze” 23
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 33
• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 23
• נָשָׂא nasa “to lift” 26
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 18
• קֹדֶשׁ qodesh “holiness” 21
• אוֹצָר otsar “treasure” 14
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 21
• מִשְׁכָּן mishkan “tabernacle” 13
• לֵוִי leviyyi “Levi” 15

Key verses

The verses using keli that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 43:11 — And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a…
• Numbers 4:15 — And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the…
• Joshua 7:11 — Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen,…
• 1 Samuel 14:6 — And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work…
• 2 Kings 23:4 — And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD…
• 1 Chronicles 15:16 — And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding,…
• Isaiah 52:11 — Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
• Isaiah 54:17 — No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the…
• Isaiah 61:10 — I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe…
• Jeremiah 51:20 — Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
• Jeremiah 51:34 — Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled…
• Hosea 13:15 — Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.