Strong’s H3619 · Hebrew

כְּלוּב
kᵉlûwb
kel-oob'

Definition

a bird-trap (as furnished with a clap-stick or treadle to spring it); hence, a basket (as resembling a wicker cage)

Etymology

from the same as H3611 (כֶּלֶב);

Where the KJV renders it

  • basket
  • cage

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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