כִּיס
purse
‘purse’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3599 appears in the Book of Proverbs — 3 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Proverbs
- Proverbs 1:14 כִּ֥יס n c ms You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."
- Proverbs 16:11 כִֽיס n c ms Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; All the weights in the bag are his work.
- Proverbs 23:31 ב/כיס prep det + n c ms Don't look at the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly:
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“purse” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun כיס (kîyç). It clusters heavily in Proverbs, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. With 6 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Deuteronomy 25:13. Carrying more than one sense, it rewards its full sense range. See the sense tree, 6-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3599 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Proverbs 3 verses 50%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 17%
- Isaiah 1 verse 17%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 33%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Bag 3×
- American Standard Version: Bag 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bag 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bag 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3599 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3599 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3599 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3599 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- a. weights (v. אֶבֶן 5) Dt 25:13; Mi 6:11; Pr 16:11; e.g. Deuteronomy 25:13
- b. money, i.e. a purse Is 46:6; Pr 1:14. e.g. Isaiah 46:6
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Pr 1:14 bag, purse (perhaps kindred with כּוֹם, q.v.; Arabic كِيسٌ (prob. from Pers. كِيسَهْ Lane 2640); Ethiopic ኪስ; NH כִּיס; Aramaic כִּיסָא, ܟܻܝܣܳܐ; Palm. מן כיסה from his purse = at his own expense, Vog p. 13 al.)—bag, in which were carried:
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from כוס (kôwç) (H3563) — cup.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
כִּיס
- receptacle, pouch, bag; purse, fund. Bekh. 39ᵇ; Tosef. ib. IV, 6, v. זוּבָּן. B. Kam. X, 1 כ׳ של גבאין the collection fund of (royal) collectors. Erub. 65ᵇ בכִיסוֹ, v. כּוֹס I. Keth. X, 4 שהטילו לכ׳ who formed a partnership for business. Y. Hor. III, 48ᶜ (ref. to Prov. XVI, 11) כולהם … מכ׳ אחד all of them receive their wages out of the same fund (of divine rewards).—חסרון כ׳, v. חֶסְרוֹן.—Sabb. 53ᵃ הזב בכ׳ שלו the gonorrhoist with his bag (for his genitals); העזים בכ׳ וכ׳ the goats with the bag over their teats; Tosef. ib. IV (V), 5 בכיסין. Lev. R. s. 12 (ref. to כיס, K’ri כוס, Prov. XXIII, 31) הוא נותן עינו בכוס וחנוני … בכ׳ he (the drunkard) sets his eye on the cup, the shopkeeper—on the money bag. Ib. בכיס כתיב לשון נקי הוא it is written (Prov. l. c.) ‘on the bag’ which is a euphemism (for illicit intercourse) as in (Prov. I, 14) &c. Tanḥ. Sh’mini 11; a. fr.—Pl. כִּיסִים, כִּיסִין. Y. Ab. Zar. III, 42ᵈ bot.—Tosef. l. c.; a. e. e.g. Proverbs 16:11
כִּיס ²
- Targ. XLVI, 6. Targ. Prov. I, 14; a. e.—Ber. 58ᵇ לא שקל ידא מן כ׳ never took his hand out of his pocket (always prepared for charity). Pes. 113ᵃ שרי כִּיסָיךְ וכ׳ untie thy purse, open thy sack, i.e. sell only for cash (Var. lect., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note). [Sabb. 67ᵃ לכ׳ לימא הכי Ar. for a bag (ulcer), v. כֵּיבָא.]—Pl. כִּיסַיָּא, כִּיסֵי. Y. Kidd. I, 60ᵈ, v. גְּרַר. Ab. Zar. 70ᵃ כמה כ׳ וכ׳ how many money-bags ought to be found on the street! Sabb. 147ᵃ כִּיסֵי בבלייתא pouches (a sort of cape or hood) worn by the Babylonian women; (Ar.: כישי, Ms. M. כושי, v. כִּישָׁא a. מַרְזֵב).—V. כִּיסְתָא.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H3599 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ב/כיס | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 23:31 | 1 |
| בְּ/כִֽיסְ/ךָ֖ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 25:13 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/כִ֖יס | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Micah 6:11 | 1 |
| כִֽיס | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 16:11 | 1 |
| כִּ֥יס | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 1:14 | 1 |
| מִ/כִּ֔יס | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 46:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3599, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
