כְּלוּבkᵉlûwb

basket, cage (Jeremiah 5:27; Amos 8:1; Amos 8:2)

Pronunciation: kel-oob' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3619

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Jeremiah 5:27 Like a cage filled with birds, their homes are filled with evil plots. And now they are great and rich.
  • Amos 8:1 Then the Sovereign Lord showed me another vision. In it I saw a basket filled with ripe fruit.
  • Amos 8:2 “What do you see, Amos?” he asked. I replied, “A basket full of ripe fruit.” Then the Lord said, “Like this fruit, Israel is ripe for punishment! I will not delay their punishment again.

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).