Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H2268
חֶבֶר
Cheberkheh'-ber
Heber
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2268is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2268
Cheber, the name of a Kenite and of three Israelites
The King James renders it: Heber.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Cheber is rendered "Heber". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Five of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 46:17The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
Genesis 46:17חֶ֖בֶר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eleven uses are in Judges.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Heber7
- and Heber3
- of Heber1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חֶ֖בֶר2
- חֶ֣בֶר2
- וְחֶ֤בֶר1
- וְחֶ֙בֶר֙1
- וָחָֽבֶר׃1
- חֶ֥בֶר1
- חֶ֠בֶר1
- חֶ֙בֶר֙1
- לְחֶ֕בֶר1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)7HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm
Genesis
one use
The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
- חֶ֖בֶרcheverproper noun (a name)tagged: Heber
Numbers
one use
And these were the descendants of Beriah: the Heberite clan from Heber and the Malchielite clan from Malchiel.
- לְחֶ֕בֶרlecheverpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Heber
Judges
five uses
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.
- וְחֶ֤בֶרvecheverconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Heber
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.
- חֶ֣בֶרcheverproper noun (a name)tagged: Heber
- חֶ֥בֶרcheverproper noun (a name)tagged: Heber
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.
- חֶ֠בֶרcheverproper noun (a name)tagged: Heber
Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.
- חֶ֣בֶרcheverproper noun (a name)tagged: Heber
1 Chronicles
four uses
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.
- חֶ֙בֶר֙cheverproper noun (a name)tagged: Heber
The sons of Beriah: Heber, as well as Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
- חֶ֖בֶרcheverproper noun (a name)tagged: Heber
Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, and of their sister Shua.
- וְחֶ֙בֶר֙vecheverconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Heber
Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber,
- וָחָֽבֶר׃vachaverconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Heber
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.