Purse
כִּיסStrong’s H3599kis
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kis is the Hebrew word usually translated “bag your”, “bag” and “from a bag”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.”
Meaning
- Bag, pursefor weights, money
How it's translated
- in bag your 1
- a bag 1
- bag 1
- from a bag 1
- and with a bag of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Isaiah 1
- Micah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 1:14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
- Proverbs 16:11A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
- Isaiah 46:6They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
- Micah 6:11Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Hebrew dictionary
כִּיס kis · purse
1) bag, purse 1a) for weights, money
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “purse” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PURSE, noun
purs. [Latin byrsa, an ox hide; Gr. id.]
- A small bag in which money is contained or carried in the pocket.
- A sum of money offered as the prize of winning in a horse race.
- In turkey, a sum of money, about f50 sterling, or $222.
- The public coffers; the treasury; as, to exhaust a nation's purse or the public purse
All definitions and other forms of “purse”
PURSE, verb transitive
To put in a purse
- To contract into folds or wrinkles.
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.