Amulet
כֶּ֫סֶתStrong’s H3704keset (ke-set)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Keset is the Hebrew word usually translated “bands” and “bands your”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?”
Meaning
- Band, fillet, covered amulets, false phylacteriesused by false prophetesses in Israel to support their demonic fortune-telling schemes
How it's translated
- bands 1
- bands your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
1 book in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
כֶּ֫סֶת keset · amulet
1) band, fillet, covered amulets, false phylacteries 1a) used by false prophetesses in Israel to support their demonic fortune-telling schemes
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “amulet” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AM'ULET, noun
[Latin amuletum; amolior, amolitus to remove.]
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.