Search results for
Cave
Doorways
Study a word
H4631מְעָרָה mᵉʻârâh — a cavern (as dark)H4247מְחִלָּה mᵉchillâh — a cavern (as if excavated)G4693σπήλαιον spḗlaion — a cavernG3692ὀπή opḗ — a hole (as if for light), i.e. cavernH2356חוֹר chôwr — a cavity, socket, denH4492מִנְהָרָה minhârâh — properly, a channel or fissure, i.e. (by implication) a cavern
Verses(5+)
- VerseGenesis 49:32The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
- VerseJoshua 10:16Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
- VerseGenesis 23:20So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.
- VerseJoshua 10:22Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me.”
- VerseJoshua 10:23So they brought the five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.
Places(2)
Manuscripts(2)
- ManuscriptThe Samuel Scroll from Cave 4 (4QSamᵃ)A Hebrew copy of Samuel that often agrees with the ancient Greek translation against the standard Hebrew — and answers a puzzle the English Bible had been carrying for centuries.
- ManuscriptThe Second Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaᵇ)The other Isaiah scroll from Cave 1 — less complete than the famous one, and far closer to the Hebrew Bible we print today.
Words (Strong's)(5+)
Topics(1)
Apologetics(2)
- ApologeticsCaiaphas Ossuary DiscoveryIn November 1990 a bulldozer broke through the roof of a first-century burial cave in Jerusalem's Peace Forest, exposing twelve limestone ossuaries; the most ornate was…
- ApologeticsThe Dead Sea Scrolls and Textual PreservationEleven caves at Qumran yielded roughly 930 manuscripts between 1947 and 1956, about 230 of them biblical — copies of every book of the Hebrew Bible but Esther, written between…
Feature Pages(1)
Authors(4)
- AuthorJeromeEusebius Hieronymus was born about 347 at Stridon, a town on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia that no longer exists. His parents were Christians with money. They sent him to…
- AuthorDidymus the BlindDidymus lost his sight at four years old, before he had learned to read. He never read a page in his life. He learned Scripture by having it read aloud to him, and he learned…
- AuthorJohn ChrysostomJohn was born at Antioch about 347. His father Secundus, an army officer, died while he was an infant; his mother Anthusa was widowed at twenty and refused to remarry so she…
- AuthorBenedict of NursiaNearly everything told about Benedict's life comes from one source: the second book of the *Dialogues* of Pope Gregory the Great, written about 593, roughly fifty years after…
Apocrypha (study resources)(3)
- Study resource2 Maccabees 2:5And when Jeremy came thither, he found an hollow cave, wherein he laid the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense, and so stopped the door.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 6:11And others, that had run together into caves near by, to keep the sabbath day secretly, being discovered by Philip, were all burnt together, because they made a conscience to…
- Study resourceJudith 16:23But she increased more and more in honour, and waxed old in her husband’s house, being an hundred and five years old, and made her maid free; so she died in Bethulia: and they…