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Cage

(Heb. kelub', Jer. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • Historical Reference: concordance
  • Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
  • Historical Reference: Installed reference work

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Study overview

Study at a glance

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H5474, H3619, G5438
Hebrew
סוּגַר · çûwgar
Greek
φυλακή · phylakḗ

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

כְּלוּב

H3619
Transliteration
kᵉlûwb
Pronunciation
kel-oob'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
3

Glosses

basket, cage.

Lexicon definition

a bird-trap (as furnished with a clap-stick or treadle to spring it)

hence, a basket (as resembling a wicker cage)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

φυλακή

G5438
Transliteration
phylakḗ
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
47

Glosses

cage, hold, (im-)prison(-ment), ward, watch

Lexicon definition

a guarding or (concretely, guard), the act, the person

figuratively, the place, the condition, or (specially), the time (as a division of day or night), literally or figuratively

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

כְּלוּב

H3619
Transliteration
kᵉlûwb
Pronunciation
kel-oob'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
3

Glosses

basket, cage, basket, cage.

Lexicon definition

a bird-trap (as furnished with a clap-stick or treadle to spring it)

hence, a basket (as resembling a wicker cage)

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Cage

(Heb. kelub', Jer. 5:27, marg. "coop;" rendered "basket" in Amos 8:1), a basket of wicker-work in which birds were placed after being caught. In Rev. 18:2 it is the rendering of the Greek phulake, properly a prison or place of confinement.

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Cages

Indexed occurrences: 1

Source: Strong's Concordance · View data sources

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Topical Bible

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