Strong's Lexicon

H3610

H3610 — כִּלאַיִם

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewkil'ayimnoun mascOccurrences: 4TWOT: 980d

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H3610
Word:	כִּלאַיִם
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	dual of H3608 in the original sense of separation
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	4
Transliteration:	kil'ayim
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	kil-ah'-yim
Meaning:	1. two heterogeneities
KJV Renderings:	divers seeds (-e kinds), mingled (seed).

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB4010

כִּלְאַיִם noun [masculine] dual two kinds (Arabic [untranscribed source text 2512], [untranscribed source text 2513] both; Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 2514] two; perhaps also כלאי MI²³ both, two, Nö^{LCB 1889, 61, cf} Dr^{Sm xcii}; Sm u. So^{MI, 1886 suggest} reservoirs; see also כְּלִי ) — בְּהֶמְתְּךָ לֹא ׳ תַּרְבִּיעַ כ Lev 19:19 not cause thy cattle to breed (in) two kinds; ׳ שָֽׂדְךָ לֹא תִּזְרַע כ Lev 19:19 ( H ); לֹא תִּזְרַע ׳ כַּרְמְךָ כ Deut 22:9 (both כִּלְאָ֑יִם); ׳ בֶּגֶד כ Lev 19:19 ( H ); — only in law of H and D against mixtures.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

כלאים (kil-ah’-yim)

Leviticus 19:19

KJV: Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

EHCC: gender with ם diverse kind: thon shalt ot