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Strongs H3611
← H3611 ↑ →
כֶּלֶב (keleb) n-m (keh'-leb)
Source: from an unused root means. to yelp, or else to attack;
Meaning: a dog; hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute
KJV: dog.
Brown, Driver, Briggs lexicon entry
כֶּ֫לֶב n.m. [I S 24:15 dog (NH id.; Ph. כלב; Aram. כֶּ֫לְבָּא, Syriac; Ar. Arabic; Eth. Ethiopic As. kalbu DI HWB 328)—abs. כ׳ ][Ju 7:5 + 16 t., כָּ֑לֶב ][ψ 59:7, ][15; pl. כְּלָבִים ][1 K 14:11 + 12 t.; cstr. כַּלְבֵי ][Jb 30:1; sf. כְּלָבֶיךָ ][ψ 68:24;—dog:lit. ][1 K 14:11 ][16:4 ][21:19, ][19, ][23, ][24 ][22:38 ][2 K 9:10, ][36 (all of fierce, hungry dogs, devouring dead bodies and licking blood); cf. ][Je 15:3 and (לְשׁוֹן כְּלָבֶיךָ) ][ψ 68:24; eating torn flesh, ][Ex 22:30 (E), כַּלְבֵי צֹאנִי = my sheep-dogs, only ][Jb 30:1 (in both these with implied inferiority); dog-sacrifice was a heathen rite ][Is 66:3 (Di al.); v. esp. RS Sem. 1, 273 (291), 325 (343); in various sim. ][Ju 7:5 ][Pr 26:11, ][17 ][ψ 59:7, ][15; in proverbial sayings: לֹא יֶֽחֱרַץ־כ׳ לְשֹׁנוֹ ][Ex 11:7 (v. I. חרץ);לְכ׳ מֵת טוֹב מִן־הָאַרְיֵה הַמֵּֽת ][Ec 9:4.applied, fig., to men, in contempt ][I S 17:43, so of psalmist’s enemies ][ψ 22:17, ][21, or in excessive humility ][2 K 8:13; still more emphatically כ׳ מֵת a dead dog, הָכּ׳ הַמֵּת ][2 S 9:8 ][16:9; also רֹאשׁ כ׳ ][3:8; כְּלָבִים אִלְּמִים ][Is 56:10 (of misleading prophets), הַכּ׳ עַזֵּי נֶפֶשׁ ][v 11 (id.); כ׳ was name given to male temple-prostitutes ][Dt 23:19 (v. Dr; cf. קָדֵשׁ). {476}
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