Word Study · Strong's H2268 · Hebrew
חֶבֶר
Cheber
kheh'-ber
“Cheber, the name of a Kenite and of three Israelites”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Cheber, the name of a Kenite and of three Israelites
Rendered in the KJV as
Heber.
- 11occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 4 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 9inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 11 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 9
- חֶ֖בֶר2
- חֶ֣בֶר2
- וְחֶ֤בֶר1
- וְחֶ֙בֶר֙1
- וָחָֽבֶר׃1
- חֶ֥בֶר1
- חֶ֠בֶר1
- חֶ֙בֶר֙1
- לְחֶ֕בֶר1
How it is rendered · 3
- Heber7
- and Heber3
- of Heber1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- proper noun (a name)7
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpm · 7
- HC/Npm · 3
- HR/Npm · 1
All 11, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Judges carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Judges5 occurrences
- Judges 4:11וְחֶ֤בֶרvecheverconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.here: and Heber
- Judges 4:17חֶ֣בֶרcheverproper noun (a name)Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.here: Heber
- Judges 4:17חֶ֥בֶרcheverproper noun (a name)Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.here: Heber
- Judges 4:21חֶ֠בֶרcheverproper noun (a name)But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.here: Heber
- Judges 5:24חֶ֣בֶרcheverproper noun (a name)Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.here: Heber
1 Chronicles4 occurrences
- 1 Chronicles 4:18חֶ֙בֶר֙cheverproper noun (a name)And Mered’s wife Bithiah gave birth to Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. These were the children of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah. Mered also took a Judean wife, who gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.here: Heber
- 1 Chronicles 7:31חֶ֖בֶרcheverproper noun (a name)The sons of Beriah: Heber, as well as Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.here: Heber
- 1 Chronicles 7:32וְחֶ֙בֶר֙vecheverconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, and of their sister Shua.here: and Heber
- 1 Chronicles 8:17וָחָֽבֶר׃vachaverconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber,here: and Heber
Same headword in Strong's