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Article/utensil

כְּלִיStrong’s H3627

keli (ke-li)

Appears in 276 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Keli is the Hebrew word usually translated “articles of”, “articles its” and “armor his”. It appears in 276 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.”
Daniel 1:2 KJV
Meaning
  1. Article, vessel, implement, utensilarticle, object (general) · utensil, implement, apparatus, vessel · vessel, receptacle (general) · vessels (boats) of paper-reed
How it's translated
  • articles of 43
  • articles its 26
  • armor his 16
  • the articles 14
  • article of 14
  • and articles of 13
  • weapons of 13
  • vessels of 10

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 28
  • 1 Samuel 27
  • 2 Chronicles 27
  • Numbers 26
  • Jeremiah 25
  • Leviticus 19

30 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
All 276 verses, by book
Deuteronomy 3
1:4122:523:24
Joshua 3
6:196:247:11
Ruth 1
2:9
Esther 1
1:7
Job 1
28:17
Proverbs 2
20:1525:4
Ecclesiastes 1
9:18
Daniel 2
1:211:8
Hosea 2
8:813:15
Amos 1
6:5
Jonah 1
1:5
Nahum 1
2:9
Zechariah 1
11:15
Hebrew dictionary

כְּלִי keli · article/utensil

1) article, vessel, implement, utensil 1a) article, object (general) 1b) utensil, implement, apparatus, vessel 1b1) implement (of hunting or war) 1b2) implement (of music) 1b3) implement, tool (of labour) 1b4) equipment, yoke (of oxen) 1b5) utensils, furniture 1c) vessel, receptacle (general) 1d) vessels (boats) of paper-reed

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “article” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

'ARTICLE, noun

[Latin articulus, a joint, from artus; Gr.]

  1. A single clause in a contract, account system of regulations, treaty, or other writing; a particular separate charge or item, in an account; a term, condition, or stipulation, in a contract.
  2. A point of faith; a doctrinal point or proposition in theology; as the thirty-nine articles.
  3. A distinct part.
  4. A particular commodity, or substance; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article In common usage, this word is applied to almost every separate substance or material.
All definitions and other forms of “article”
  1. A point of time. [Not in use.]
  2. In botany, that part of a stalk or stem, which is between two joints.
  3. In grammar, an adjective used before nouns, to limit or define their application; as hic, ille, ipse, in Latin; in Greek; the, this, that, in English.

'ARTICLE, verb transitive

  1. To draw up in distinct particulars; as, to article the errors or follies of a man.
  2. To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles. 'He shall be articled against in the High Court of admiralty.' Stat. 33.
  3. To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.

'ARTICLE, verb intransitive

[supra.]

To agree by articles; to stipulate.

    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.