Strong's Definition
feminine of 3627 (only in the plural); a kidney (as an essential organ); figuratively, the mind (as the interior self)
KJV Usage: kidneys, reins
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
כִּלְיָה (kil.yah) — kidney. 1) kidneys 1a) of physical organ (lit.) 1b) of seat of emotion and affection (fig.) 1c) of sacrificial animals 2) (TWOT) reins
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun f
kidney = either of a pair of relatively small organs in the abdominal cavity of humans and animals and usually burned along with the fat of an animal sacrifice on the altar; ≈ regarded as a delicacy and considered the seat of emotions and one's devotion to God
EXO 29:13 · EXO 29:22 · LEV 3:4 · LEV 3:4 · LEV 3:10 · LEV 3:10 · LEV 3:15 · LEV 3:15 · LEV 4:9 · LEV 4:9 · LEV 7:4 · LEV 7:4 · LEV 8:16 · LEV 8:25 · LEV 9:10 · LEV 9:19 · JOB 16:13 · PSA 73:21 · PSA 139:13 · ISA 34:6 · LAM 3:13
Self | ≈ לֵב · לֵבָב
kidneys > innermost being literally: kidney; hence: = seat of a person's emotions and devotion to God, created by God, and hidden to everyone but God himself
JOB 19:27 · PSA 7:10 · PSA 16:7 · PSA 26:2 · PRO 23:16 · JER 11:20 · JER 12:2 · JER 17:10 · JER 20:12
Crops | Good
Collocation: חֵלֶב כִּלְיֹות חִטָּה
(to be blessed with an abundance of the) finest grains of wheat literally: fat of the kidneys of wheat; hence: = the best quality of grains of wheat
1 PSA 139:13 RSV NRSV REB ESV "inward parts" NIV "inmost being" NJB "inmost self" | NJPS "conscience"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[כִּלְיָה] n.f. only pl. kidneys base