Rogue
כִּילַיStrong’s H3596kilay (ki-lay)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kilay is the Hebrew word usually translated “scoundrel”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.”
Meaning
- Scoundrel, knave
How it's translated
- and of a scoundrel 1
- and a scoundrel 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
כִּילַי kilay · rogue
scoundrel, knave
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rogue” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROGUE, noun
rog. [Gr., Eng. rogue by transposition of letters. The word arga, in the laws of the Longobards, denotes a cuckold.]
- In law, a vagrant; a sturdy beggar; a vagabond.
- A knave; a dishonest person; applied now, I believe, exclusively to males.
- A name of slight tenderness and endearment.
- A wag.
All definitions and other forms of “rogue”
ROGUE, verb intransitive
rog.
- To wander; to play the vagabond. [Little used.]
- To play knavish tricks. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.