Bible word study

Kecel (Strong’s H3689): Meaning in the Bible

Kecel (כֶּסֶל) is the Hebrew word numbered H3689 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, fatness, i.e. by implication (literally) the loin (as the seat of the leaf fat) or (generally) the viscera; also (figuratively) silliness or (in a good sense) trust. In the King James Bible it is translated confidence, flank, folly, hope, loin..

• Original wordכֶּסֶל
• Transliterationkeçel
• Pronunciationkeh'-sel
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH3689
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H3688;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Kecel appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Kecel (H3689) stands behind 13 English renderings in 13 verses across 5 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Leviticus (5), Job (3), Psalms (3).

How the King James Bible renders Kecel, by count

• flanks6 of 13 (46 percent)
• hope3 of 13 (23 percent)
• folly2 of 13 (15 percent)
• confidence1 of 13 (8 percent)
• loins1 of 13 (8 percent)

Three places to read Kecel

• Leviticus 3:4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
• Leviticus 7:4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:
• Psalms 38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Kecel in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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