Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H3612
כָּלֵב
Kalebkaw-labe'
Caleb
35 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Kâlêb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3612is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 21spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3612
Caleb, the name of three Israelites
The King James renders it: Caleb.
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
Kaleb is rendered "Caleb". It stands 35 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 13:6from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
- The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.
The first use
from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
Numbers 13:6כָּלֵ֖ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's thirty-five uses are in Numbers.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Caleb26
- to Caleb4
- and Caleb3
- and to Caleb1
- of Caleb1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 35, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
21 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
- כָּלֵ֖ב5
- כָּלֵ֔ב4
- כָּלֵ֣ב3
- לְכָלֵ֥ב3
- כָלֵ֖ב2
- כָלֵב֙2
- כָּלֵ֤ב2
- וְכָלֵב֙1
- וְכָלֵ֖ב1
- וְכָלֵ֣ב1
- וּלְכָלֵ֣ב1
- כָלֵ֗ב1
and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)26HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)5HR/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npm
Numbers
nine uses
from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;
- כָּלֵ֖בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”
- כָּלֵ֛בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
- וְכָלֵב֙vekhalevconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Caleb
But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.
- כָלֵ֗בkhalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
- כָּלֵ֣בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
- וְכָלֵ֖בvekhalevconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Caleb
For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
- כָּלֵ֣בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun—because they did follow the LORD wholeheartedly.’
- כָּלֵ֤בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
These are their names: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;
- כָּלֵ֖בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
Deuteronomy
one use
except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”
- כָּלֵ֤בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
Joshua
nine uses
Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.
- כָּלֵ֥בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.
- לְכָלֵ֥בlekhalevpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Caleb
Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
- לְכָלֵ֨בlekhalevpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Caleb
According to the LORD’s command to him, Joshua gave Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah—Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)
- וּלְכָלֵ֣בulekhalevconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Caleb
And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
- כָּלֵ֔בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.”
- כָּלֵ֔בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
So Othniel son of Caleb’s brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.
- כָלֵ֑בkhalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”
- כָּלֵ֖בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
But they had given the fields and villages around the city to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.
- לְכָלֵ֥בlekhalevpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Caleb
Judges
six uses
And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.”
- כָּלֵ֔בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
So Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.
- כָלֵ֖בkhalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”
- כָּלֵ֖בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
“Give me a blessing,” she answered. “Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.
- כָּלֵ֗בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
Just as Moses had promised, Judah gave Hebron to Caleb, who drove out the descendants of the three sons of Anak.
- לְכָלֵב֙lekhalevpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Caleb
But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.
- כָלֵ֖בkhalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
1 Samuel
one use
We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”
- כָּלֵ֑בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
1 Chronicles
nine uses
Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah and by Jerioth. These were the sons of Azubah: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
- וְכָלֵ֣בvekhalevconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Caleb
When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore to him Hur.
- כָלֵב֙khalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph, and Mareshah his second son, who was the father of Hebron.
- כָלֵב֙khalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
Caleb’s concubine Ephah was the mother of Haran, Moza, and Gazez. Haran was the father of Gazez.
- כָּלֵ֔בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
Caleb’s concubine Maacah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah.
- כָּלֵב֙kalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
She was also the mother of Shaaph father of Madmannah, and of Sheva father of Machbenah and Gibea. Caleb’s daughter was Acsah.
- כָּלֵ֖בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah:
- כָלֵ֔בkhalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz.
- כָּלֵ֣בkalevproper noun (a name)tagged: Caleb
But the fields and villages around the city were given to Caleb son of Jephunneh.
- לְכָלֵ֥בlekhalevpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Caleb
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.