כֶּ֫לֶב noun masculine[1Sam 24:15] dog (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician כלב; Aramaic כַּלְבָּא, , Arabic ; Ethiopic Assyrian kalbu DlHWB 328) — absolute ׳כ [Judg 7:5] + 16 t., כָּ֑לֶב [Ps 59:7]; [Ps 59:15] plural כְּלָבִים [1Kgs 14:11] + 12 t.; construct כַּלְבֵי [Job 30:1] suffix כְּלָבֶיךָ [Ps 68:24] — dog:
\ \ a. literal [1Kgs 14:11]; [1Kgs 16:4]; [1Kgs 21:19] (twice in verse); [1Kgs 21:23]; [1Kgs 21:24]; [1Kgs 22:38]; [2Kgs 9:10]; [2Kgs 9:36] (all of fierce, hungry dogs, devouring dead bodies and licking blood); compare [Jer 15:3] and (לְשׁוֺן כְּלָבֶיךָ) [Ps 68:24] eating torn flesh, [Exod 22:30] (E), כַּלְבֵי צאֹנִי = my sheep-dogs, only [Job 30:1] (in both these with implied inferiority); dog-sacrifice was a heathen rite [Isa 66:3] (Di and others); see especially RSSemitic i, 273 (291), 325 (343); invarious simile [Judg 7:5]; [Prov 26:11]; [Prov 26:17]; [Ps 59:7]; [Ps 59:15] in proverbial sayings: לֹא לִשֹׁנוֺ ׳יֶחֱרַץכֿ [Exod 11:7] (see I. חרץ); מֵת טוֺב מִןֿ ׳לְכ הָאַרְיֵה הַמֵּת [Eccl 9:4].
\ \ b. applied, figurative, to men, in contempt [1Sam 17:43], so of psalmist's enemies [Ps 22:17]; [Ps 22:21], or in excessive humility [2Kgs 8:13] still more emphatically מֵת ׳כ a dead dog, הַמֵּת ׳הַכּ [2Sam 9:8]; [2Sam 16:9] also ׳ראֹשׁ כ [2Sam 3:8] כְּלָבִים אִלְּמִים [Isa 56:10] (of misleading prophets), עַזֵּי נֶפֶשׁ ׳הַכּ v[Isa 56:11] (id.); ׳כ was name given to male temple-prostitutes [Deut 23:19] (see Dr; compare קָדֵשׁ).
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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