כִּילַיkîylay

כִּילַי: see נכל (Isaiah 32:5; Isaiah 32:7)

Pronunciation: kee-lah'-ee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3596

Meanings

כִּילַי: knave (Isaiah 32:5; Isaiah 32:7)

Same root

כּוּלkûwl · H3557properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

Isaiah 32:5 In that day ungodly fools will not be heroes. Scoundrels will not be respected.
Isaiah 32:7 The smooth tricks of scoundrels are evil. They plot crooked schemes. They lie to convict the poor, even when the cause of the poor is just.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).