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title: כְּסִיל — Chesil · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּסִיל (3686), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Chesil. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּסִיל

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«כְּסִיל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Chesil** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3686 · **BDB:** כְּסִיל³

### Glosses

Kesil (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Chesil [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3686/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3686/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in S of tribe of Judah Jos 15:30, prob. corrupt for בְּתוּל Jos 19:4; see בְּתוּאֵל.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּסִיל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3686/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 15:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.30/)

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וְאֶלְתּוֹלַ֥ד וּכְסִ֖יל וְחָרְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Eltolad and Kesil and Hormah

*JPS 1917:* and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah;

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