Definitions
n. A vessel to receive a blessing.
n. A vessel, dish, instrument.
Example Sentences
"It's not enough to ask for a bracha; you have to make a keli."
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
TH כלי > Y כּלי keyle
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
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Alternative Spellings
keyle, keli, klee, keyleh, kayleh, kayle
Notes
plural: 'keylim'
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