Basket
כְּלוּבStrong’s H3619keluv (ke-luv)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Keluv is the Hebrew word usually translated “basket of” and “like a cage”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.”
Meaning
- Cage, basket, dog cage
How it's translated
- a basket of 2
- like a cage 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Amos 2
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
כְּלוּב keluv · basket
cage, basket, dog cage
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “basket” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
B'ASKET, noun
- A domestic vessel made of twigs, rushes, splinters or other flexible things interwoven.
- The contents of a basket; as much as a basket will contain; as, a basket of medlars is two bushels.
All definitions and other forms of “basket”
B'ASKET, verb transitive
To put in a basket
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.