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Lexicon :: Strong's H3611 - keleḇ

Aa
כֶּלֶב
Transliteration
keleḇ
Pronunciation
keh'-leb
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root means. to yelp, or else to attack
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 981a

Strong’s Definitions

כֶּלֶב keleb, keh'-leb; from an unused root means. to yelp, or else to attack; a dog; hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute:—dog.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's H3611 in the following manner: dog (32x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's H3611 in the following manner: dog (32x).

  1. dog

    1. dog (literal)

    2. contempt or abasement (fig.)

    3. of pagan sacrifice

    4. of male cult prostitute (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כֶּלֶב keleb, keh'-leb; from an unused root means. to yelp, or else to attack; a dog; hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute:—dog.
STRONGS H3611: Abbreviations
† כֶּ֫לֶב noun masculine1Sam 24:15 dog (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician כלב; Aramaic כַּלְבָּא, bdb047611, Arabic bdb047612; Ethiopic bdb047613 Assyrian kalbu DlHWB 328) — absolute כ׳ Judges 7:5 + 16 times, כָּ֑לֶב Psalm 59:7; Psalm 59:15; plural כְּלָבִים 1 Kings 14:11 + 12 times; construct כַּלְבֵי Job 30:1; suffix כְּלָבֶיךָ Psalm 68:24; — dog:
a. literal 1 Kings 14:11; 1 Kings 16:4; 1 Kings 21:19 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 21:23, 24; 1 Kings 22:38; 2 Kings 9:10, 36 (all of fierce, hungry dogs, devouring dead bodies and licking blood); compare Jeremiah 15:3 and (לְשׁוֺן כְּלָבֶיךָ) Psalm 68:24; eating torn flesh, Exodus 22:30 (E), כַּלְבֵי צאֹנִי = my sheep-dogs, only Job 30:1 (in both these with implied inferiority); dog-sacrifice was a heathen rite Isaiah 66:3 (Di and others); see especially RSSemitic i, 273 (291), 325 (343); invarious simile Judges 7:5; Proverbs 26:11, 17; Psalm 59:7; Psalm 59:15; in proverbial sayings: לֹא לִשֹׁנוֺ יֶחֱרַץכֿ׳ Exodus 11:7 (see I. חרץ); מֵת טוֺב מִןֿ לְכ׳ הָאַרְיֵה הַמֵּת Ecclesiastes 9:4.
b. applied, figurative, to men, in contempt 1 Samuel 17:43, so of psalmist's enemies Psalm 22:17; Psalm 22:21, or in excessive humility 2 Kings 8:13; still more emphatically מֵת כ׳ a dead dog, הַמֵּת הַכּ׳ 2 Samuel 9:8; 2 Samuel 16:9; also ראֹשׁ כ׳ 2 Samuel 3:8; כְּלָבִים אִלְּמִים Isaiah 56:10 (of misleading prophets), עַזֵּי נֶפֶשׁ הַכּ׳ Isaiah 56:11 (id.); כ׳ was name given to male temple-prostitutes Deuteronomy 23:19 (see Dr; compare H6945 קָדֵשׁ).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

11:7; 22:30

Deuteronomy

23:19

Judges

7:5; 7:5

1 Samuel

17:43; 24:15

2 Samuel

3:8; 9:8; 16:9

1 Kings

14:11; 14:11; 16:4; 21:19; 21:23; 21:24; 22:38

2 Kings

8:13; 9:10; 9:36

Job

30:1; 30:1

Psalms

22:17; 22:21; 59:7; 59:7; 59:15; 59:15; 68:24; 68:24

Proverbs

26:11; 26:17

Ecclesiastes

9:4

Isaiah

56:10; 56:11; 66:3

Jeremiah

15:3

H3611

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Strong's Number H3611 matches the Hebrew כֶּלֶב (keleḇ),
which occurs 32 times in 31 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:7 - But against the children of Israel, man or beast, not so much as the tongue of a dog will be moved: so that you may see how the Lord makes a division between Israel and the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:31 - You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose death has been caused by the beasts of the field may be used for your food; it is to be given to the dogs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:18 - Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - So he took the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, Put on one side by themselves all those drinking up the water with their tongues like a dog; and in the same way, all those who go down on their knees to the water while drinking.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:43 - And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come out to me with sticks? And the Philistine put curses on David by all his gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:14 - After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:8 - And Abner was very angry at the words of Ish-bosheth, and he said, Am I a dog's head of Judah? I am this day doing all in my power for the cause of your father Saul and for his brothers and his friends, and have not given you up into the hands of David, and now you say I have done wrong with a woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:8 - And he went down on his face before the king, and said, What is your servant, for you to take note of a dead dog such as I am?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:9 - Then Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said to the king, Is this dead dog to go on cursing my lord the king? let me go over and take off his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:11 - Those of the family of Jeroboam who come to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and those on whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air; for the Lord has said it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:4 - Anyone of the family of Baasha who comes to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and he to whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19 - Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:23 - And of Jezebel the Lord said, Jezebel will become food for dogs in the heritage of Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:24 - Any man of the family of Ahab who comes to his death in the town will become food for the dogs; and he who comes to his death in the open country will be food for the birds of the air.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:38 - And the war-carriage was washed by the pool of Samaria, which was the bathing-place of the loose women, and the dogs were drinking his blood there, as the Lord had said.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:13 - And Hazael said, How is it possible that your servant, who is only a dog, will do this great thing? And Elisha said, The Lord has made it clear to me that you will be king over Aram.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:10 - And Jezebel will become food for the dogs in the heritage of Jezreel, and there will be no one to put her body into the earth. Then, opening the door, he went in flight.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36 - So they came back and gave him word of it. And he said, This is what the Lord said by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the heritage of Jezreel the flesh of Jezebel will become food for dogs;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:1 - But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:16 - Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:20 - Make my soul safe from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:6 - They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:14 - And in the evening let them come back, and make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:23 - So that your foot may be red with blood, and the tongues of your dogs with the same.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:11 - Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:17 - He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:4 - For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:10 - His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:11 - Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:3 - He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 - And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.
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