כִּלְיָה
kil.yah
“kidney”
Definition
a kidney (as an essential organ); figuratively, the mind (as the interior self)
feminine of H3627 (כְּלִי) (only in the plural);
- kidneys 1a) of physical organ (lit.) 1b) of seat of emotion and affection (fig.) 1c) of sacrificial animals 2) (TWOT) reins
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
כִּלְיָה appears 25 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
with curds from the herd and milk from the flock,with the fat of lambs,with rams from Bashan, and goats,with the choicest grains of wheat.From the juice of the finest grapesyou drank the wine.
You planted them, and they have taken root.They have grown and produced fruit.You are ever on their lips,but far from their hearts.
He pierced my kidneyswith His arrows.
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.
My inmost being will rejoicewhen your lips speak what is right.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.