Lexicon
כִּיס
kis
H3599
H:N-M Hebrew

purse

6
Occurrences
4
Books
Hebrew
Language

kis denotes a container associated with money, weighed stones, or jointly held goods in the supplied biblical contexts.

The attested contexts chiefly show kis as a container connected with weighed stones, valuables, or pooled property: it holds differing weights, gold or silver, deceptive stones, just weights, or a common allotted portion. In Proverbs 23:31, the supplied translation instead describes wine in a cup, so the lemma's precise contribution there cannot be isolated from the translation.

Senses in use

  1. Container for valuables, weights, or pooled goods · dominant

    In Deuteronomy 25:13, the construct form occurs in the prohibition against having two kinds of weights in a bag. In Isaiah 46:6, Micah 6:11, Proverbs 16:11, and Proverbs 1:14, the APB renders the surrounding clauses with gold, silver, stones, balances, or a single shared purse, showing the term in contexts of stored valuables, weights, and common property. Proverbs 23:31 contains the absolute form in a clause the APB renders with wine going down smoothly, but the translation does not make this token's contribution clear.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “bag” in Deuteronomy 25:13 and “purse” in Isaiah 46:6, Micah 6:11, Proverbs 16:11, and Proverbs 1:14. In Proverbs 23:31 it instead renders the clause with a “cup”; That wording cannot securely be assigned to this term.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture