כֶּלֶב (keleb) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning dog. It appears
32 times
in 13 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H3611).
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 981a)
Range of meaning (TWOT 981a)dog; a dead dog; prostitute
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
כֶּ֫לֶבnoun, masculine: dog
a.literally (all of fierce, hungry dogs, devouring dead bodies and licking blood); compare and (לְשׁוֹן כְּלָבֶיךָ) (E), only (Di al.); 273 (291), 325 (343); in various similarly
b.applied, figuratively, to men, in contempt, still more emphatically כ׳ מֵת a dead dog, הָכּ׳ הַמֵּת; also רֹאשׁ כ׳; כְּלָבִים אִלְּמִים (of misleading prophets), כלב was name given to male temple-prostitutes.
Strong's H3611כֶּלֶב: a dog; hence (by euphemism) a male prostitute KJV:dog.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.