כִּיס

kis

purse

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Strong’s H3599Noun, masculine5 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

a bag2

bag1

the bag1

a bag of1

In the text

Deuteronomy 25:13בְּכִיסְךָ
You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
Proverbs 1:14כִּיס
Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse” —
Isaiah 46:6מִכִּיס
They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
Micah 6:11וּבְכִיס
Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

Brown-Driver-Briggs

כִּיס n.m. Pr 1:14 bag, purse (perh. kindred with כּוֹס, q.v.; Ar. Arabic (prob. fr. Pers. Persian Lane 2640); Eth. Ethiopic NH כִּיס; Aram. כִּיסָא, Syriac; Palm. מן כיסה from his purse = at his own expense, Vog p. 13 al.)—bag, in which were carried:

a. weights (v. אֶבֶן 5) Dt 25:13 Mi 6:11 Pr 16:11;

b. money, i.e. a purse Is 46:6 Pr 1:14.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.