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title: כְּלוּב — basket · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּלוּב (3619), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: basket. BDB 1906: n.m. basket, cage. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּלוּב

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«כְּלוּב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **basket** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 3619 · **BDB:** כְּלוּב²

### Glosses

a.basket (2); a.cage (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

basket [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3619/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. basket, cage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3619/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 5:27 basket, cage (√ dub.; NH id., כְּלִיבָה; Aramaic ܟܽܘܠܒܳܫܳܐ in Lexx.; Tel Am. kilubi, bird-net, cf. Zim ZA vi. 145, 147)—abs. כִּכְלוּבמָלֵא עוֹף Je 5:27 like a cage full of birds; cstr. כְּלוּב קַיִץ Am 8:1, 2 a basket of summer fruit.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּלוּב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3619/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Amos 8:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.8.1/)

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כֹּ֥ה הִרְאַ֖נִי אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה וְהִנֵּ֖ה כְּל֥וּב קָֽיִץ׃

*Word for word:* thus he showed.me Lord \[the\] Yahweh and there! a.basket of.summer.fruit

*JPS 1917:* Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and behold a basket of summer fruit.

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[Jeremiah 5:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.27/)

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כִּכְלוּב֙ מָ֣לֵא ע֔וֹף כֵּ֥ן בָּתֵּיהֶ֖ם מְלֵאִ֣ים מִרְמָ֑ה עַל־כֵּ֥ן גָּדְל֖וּ וַֽיַּעֲשִֽׁירוּ׃

*Word for word:* like a.cage full bird\[s\] so houses their \[are\].full deceit therefore they.have.become.great and they.have.gained.riches

*JPS 1917:* As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; therefore they are become great, and waxen rich;

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