Hebrew verb · H6906
קָבַע
qabakaw-bah'
to rob
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qâbaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6906is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6906
to cover, i.e. (figuratively) defraud
The King James renders it: rob, spoil.
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
qaba is rendered "to rob". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Malachi, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Proverbs 22:23for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.
Proverbs 22:23וְקָבַ֖ע
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- robbing2
- ¿ will he rob1
- and he will rob1
- have we robbed you1
- rob them1
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.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- הֲיִקְבַּ֨ע1
- וְקָבַ֖ע1
- קֹבְעֵיהֶ֣ם1
- קֹבְעִ֣ים1
- קֹבְעִ֑ים1
- קְבַעֲנ֑וּךָ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural2HVqrmpa
- Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
- question particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HTi/Vqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp1cp/Sp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqrmpc/Sp3mp
Proverbs
two uses
for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.
- וְקָבַ֖עvekava'Hc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will rob
- קֹבְעֵיהֶ֣םkoeeihemverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: rob them
Malachi
four uses
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
- הֲיִקְבַּ֨עhayikba'question particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ will he rob
- קֹבְעִ֣יםkoeimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: robbing
- קְבַעֲנ֑וּךָkevaanuchaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: have we robbed you
You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.
- קֹבְעִ֑יםkoeimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: robbing
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 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.