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(only in plur. ëְּìָéåֹú , kelayoth', prob. from the idea of its being the seat of longing), the leaf-fat around which was specially to be a burnt-offering, significant of its being the richest and most central part of the victim (Exo_29:13; Exo_29:22; Lev_3:4; Lev_3:10; Lev_3:15; Lev_4:9; Lev_7:4; Lev_8:16; Lev_8:25; Lev_9:10; Lev_9:19; Isa_34:3). Spoken also of the " reins" of a human being, i.e. the inmost soul, which the ancients supposed to be seated in the viscera (compare the Homeric öñήí , midriff, hence mind), both in a physical sense (Job_16:13; Job_19:27; Psa_139:13; Lam_3:13), and figuratively (Psa_7:9; Psa_16:7; Psa_26:2; Psa_73:21; Pro_23:16; Jer_11:20; Jer_12:2; Jer_17:10; Jer_20:12). Sometimes applied to kernels of grain, from their kidney-like shape and richness (Deu_32:14).