Kidney
כִּלְיָהStrong’s H3629kilyah (kil-yah)
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kilyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “kidneys”, “kidneys my” and “kidneys of”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.”
Meaning
- Kidneysof physical organ (lit.) · of seat of emotion and affection (fig.) · of sacrificial animals
- (TWOT) reins
How it's translated
- the kidneys 15
- kidneys my 6
- kidneys 3
- kidneys of 2
- and the kidneys 1
- and kidneys 1
- and kidneys my 1
- from kidneys their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 9
- Psalms 5
- Jeremiah 4
- Exodus 2
- Job 2
- Deuteronomy 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:22Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:
- Leviticus 3:4And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
- Leviticus 3:10And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
- Leviticus 3:15And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
- Leviticus 4:9And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away,
- Leviticus 7:4And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:
Hebrew dictionary
כִּלְיָה kilyah · kidney
1) kidneys 1a) of physical organ (lit.) 1b) of seat of emotion and affection (fig.) 1c) of sacrificial animals 2) (TWOT) reins
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “kidney” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
KID'NEY, noun
[I have not found this word in any other language.]
- The kidneys are two oblong flattened bodies, extending from the eleventh and twelfth ribs to the fourth lumbar vertebra, behind the intestines.
- Sort; kind. [A ludicrous use of the word.]
- A cant term for a waiting servant.
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.