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title: כִּיס — bag · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כִּיס (3599), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: bag. BDB 1906: n.m. bag, purse. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כִּיס

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«כִּיס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bag** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 3599 · **BDB:** כִּיס

### Glosses

a.bag (3); bag (1); of.\[the\].bag (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bag [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3599/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. bag, purse [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3599/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 1:14 bag, purse (perhaps kindred with כּוֹם, q.v.; Arabic كِيسٌ (prob. from Pers. كِيسَهْ Lane 2640); Ethiopic ኪስ; NH כִּיס; Aramaic כִּיסָא, ܟܻܝܣܳܐ; Palm. מן כיסה from his purse = at his own expense, Vog p. 13 al.)—bag, in which were carried: weights (v. אֶבֶן 5) Dt 25:13; Mi 6:11; Pr 16:11; money, i.e. a purse Is 46:6; Pr 1:14.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כִּיס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3599/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Micah 6:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.6.11/)

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הַאֶזְכֶּ֖ה בְּמֹ֣אזְנֵי רֶ֑שַׁע וּבְכִ֖יס אַבְנֵ֥י מִרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* will I.be.clean? with balances of.wickedness and with a.bag of.weights of.deceit

*JPS 1917:* 'Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?'

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[Proverbs 16:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.11/)

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פֶּ֤לֶס ׀ וּמֹאזְנֵ֣י מִ֭שְׁפָּט לַֽיהוָ֑ה מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗הוּ כָּל־אַבְנֵי־כִֽיס׃

*Word for word:* scale\[s\] and balances of.justice \[belong\].to Yahweh work \[are\].his all \[the\].weights of.\[the\].bag

*JPS 1917:* A just balance and scales are the LORD'S; all the weights of the bag are His work.

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