Mixture
כִּלְאַיִםStrong’s H3610kilayim (kil-a-yim)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kilayim is the Hebrew word usually translated “two kinds”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.”
Meaning
- Two kinds, mixtureforbidden practice among cattle (cross breeding), seeds (sowing), and cloth garments (material)
How it's translated
- two kinds 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
כִּלְאַיִם kilayim · mixture
1) two kinds, mixture 1a) forbidden practice among cattle (cross breeding), seeds (sowing), and cloth garments (material)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mixture” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MIX'TURE, noun
[Latin mixtura.]
The act of mixing, or state of being mixed. Compounds are made by the mixture of different substances.
- A mass or compound, consisting of different ingredients blended without order.
- The ingredient added and mixed.
- In pharmacy, a liquid medicine which receives into its composition not only extracts, salts and other substances dissolvable in water, but earths, powders and other substances not dissolvable.
- In chimistry, mixture differs from combination.
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.