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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6913

קֶבֶר

qeberkeh'-ber

grave

67 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 H6913is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 15 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 51
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6913

a sepulchre

The King James renders it: burying place, grave, sepulchre.

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

qeber is rendered "grave". It stands 67 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.

  • Nine of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 23:4“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
  • The Greek text spells it fifty-one different ways.

The first use

“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

Genesis 23:4קֶ֙בֶר֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in fifteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 24 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • a burial site6
  • in tomb of6
  • graves its4
  • graves your4
  • grave3
  • grave of3
  • in graves of3
  • in the grave3
  • the graves3
  • tombs of3
  • a grave2
  • from graves your2

and 23 more, 67 uses in all

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 67, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

51 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

  • קָ֑בֶר4
  • קָֽבֶר׃3
  • בְּקֶ֙בֶר֙2
  • בְּקֶ֣בֶר2
  • בְּקִבְר֥וֹת2
  • הַקְּבָרִ֔ים2
  • מִקִּבְרוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם2
  • קֶ֗בֶר2
  • קֶ֥בֶר2
  • קִבְר֔וֹ2
  • קִבְרֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם2
  • קִבְרֵ֣י2

and 39 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular12HNcmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)7HR/Ncmsc
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmsc
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular4HRd/Ncmsa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3HNcfpc/Sp3fs
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmpc
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HNcmsc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncfpc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HTd/Ncmpa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfpc
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural2HNcfpc/Sp2mp
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HNcfpc/Sp2ms

Genesis

eight uses
  • “I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

    Genesis 23:4

    • קֶ֙בֶר֙kevernoun · masculine singulartagged: a burial site
  • “Listen to us, sir. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.”

    Genesis 23:6

    • קְבָרֵ֔ינוּkevareinunoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: burial sites our
    • קִבְר֛וֹkivronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: burial site his
  • to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”

    Genesis 23:9

    • קָֽבֶר׃kavernoun · masculine singulartagged: a burial site
  • So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.

    Genesis 23:20

    • קָ֑בֶרkavernoun · masculine singulartagged: a burial site
  • The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

    Genesis 49:30

    • קָֽבֶר׃kavernoun · masculine singulartagged: a burial site
  • my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”

    Genesis 50:5

    • בְּקִבְרִ֗יbekivripreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: in grave my
  • They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

    Genesis 50:13

    • קֶ֗בֶרkevernoun · masculine singulartagged: a burial site

Exodus

one use
  • They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

    Exodus 14:11

    • קְבָרִים֙kevarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: graves

Numbers

two uses
  • Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

    Numbers 19:16

    • בְקָ֑בֶרvekaverpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in a grave
  • Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.

    Numbers 19:18

    • בַקָּֽבֶר׃vakaverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the grave

Judges

two uses
  • Later, Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

    Judges 8:32

    • בְּקֶ֙בֶר֙bekeverpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in tomb of
  • Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.

    Judges 16:31

    • בְּקֶ֖בֶרbekeverpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in tomb of

2 Samuel

six uses
  • Later, they took Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb in Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night and reached Hebron at daybreak.

    2 Samuel 2:32

    • בְּקֶ֣בֶרbekeverpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in tomb of
  • When they buried Abner in Hebron, the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb, and all the people wept.

    2 Samuel 3:32

    • קֶ֣בֶרkevernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: grave of
  • So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.

    2 Samuel 4:12

    • בְקֶֽבֶר־vekever-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in tomb of
  • When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

    2 Samuel 17:23

    • בְּקֶ֥בֶרbekeverpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in tomb of
  • Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”

    2 Samuel 19:37

    • קֶ֥בֶרkevernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: grave of
  • And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.

    2 Samuel 21:14

    • בְּקֶ֙בֶר֙bekeverpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in tomb of

1 Kings

four uses
  • but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.’”

    1 Kings 13:22

    • קֶ֥בֶרkevernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: grave of
  • Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they lamented over him, “Oh, my brother!”

    1 Kings 13:30

    • בְּקִבְר֑וֹbekivropreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in own grave his
  • After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,

    1 Kings 13:31

    • בַּקֶּ֕בֶרbakeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the grave
  • All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.

    1 Kings 14:13

    • קָ֑בֶרkavernoun · masculine singulartagged: a grave

2 Kings

six uses
  • Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on his feet.

    2 Kings 13:21

    • בְּקֶ֣בֶרbekeverpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in grave of
  • ‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.

    2 Kings 22:20

    • קִבְרֹתֶיךָ֮kivroteichanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: graves your
  • He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

    2 Kings 23:6

    • קֶ֖בֶרkevernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: burial site of
  • And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.

    2 Kings 23:16

    • הַקְּבָרִ֤יםhakevarimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the graves
    • הַקְּבָרִ֔יםhakevarimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the graves
  • Then the king asked, “What is this monument I see?” And the men of the city replied, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced these things that you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

    2 Kings 23:17

    • הַקֶּ֤בֶרhakeverthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the grave of

2 Chronicles

eight uses
  • And he was buried in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier that was full of spices and various blended perfumes; then they made a great fire in his honor.

    2 Chronicles 16:14

    • בְקִבְרֹתָ֗יוvekivrotavpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in own graves his
  • Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

    2 Chronicles 21:20

    • בְּקִבְר֥וֹתbekivrotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in graves of
  • And when the Arameans had withdrawn, they left Joash severely wounded. His own servants conspired against him for shedding the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

    2 Chronicles 24:25

    • בְּקִבְר֥וֹתbekivrotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in graves of
  • And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

    2 Chronicles 28:27

    • לְקִבְרֵ֖יlekivreipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to graves of
  • And Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried in the upper tombs of David’s descendants. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.

    2 Chronicles 32:33

    • קִבְרֵ֣יkivreinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: graves of
  • Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

    2 Chronicles 34:4

    • הַקְּבָרִ֔יםhakevarimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the graves
  • ‘Now I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.

    2 Chronicles 34:28

    • קִבְרֹתֶיךָ֮kivroteichanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: graves your
  • So his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. And Josiah was buried in the tomb of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.

    2 Chronicles 35:24

    • בְּקִבְר֣וֹתbekivrotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in graves of

Nehemiah

three uses
  • and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

    Nehemiah 2:3

    • קִבְר֤וֹתkivrotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tombs of
  • and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it.”

    Nehemiah 2:5

    • קִבְר֥וֹתkivrotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tombs of
  • Beyond him, Nehemiah son of Azbuk, ruler of a half-district of Beth-zur, made repairs up to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool and the House of the Mighty.

    Nehemiah 3:16

    • קִבְרֵ֣יkivreinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tombs of

Job

five uses
  • who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

    Job 3:22

    • קָֽבֶר׃kavernoun · masculine singulartagged: grave
  • You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.

    Job 5:26

    • קָ֑בֶרkavernoun · masculine singulartagged: grave
  • If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

    Job 10:19

    • לַקֶּ֥בֶרlakeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the grave
  • “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

    Job 17:1

    • קְבָרִ֥יםkevarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: graves
  • He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

    Job 21:32

    • לִקְבָר֣וֹתlikvarotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: to graves

Psalms

three uses
  • For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

    Psalms 5:9

    • קֶֽבֶר־kever-noun · masculine singulartagged: a grave
  • I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

    Psalms 88:5

    • קֶ֗בֶרkevernoun · masculine singulartagged: grave
  • Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

    Psalms 88:11

    • בַּקֶּ֣בֶרbakeverpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the grave

Isaiah

five uses
  • But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

    Isaiah 14:19

    • מִֽקִּבְרְךָ֙mikivrechapreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: from tomb your
  • What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

    Isaiah 22:16

    • קָ֑בֶרkavernoun · masculine singulartagged: a tomb
    • קִבְר֔וֹkivronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: tomb his
  • He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

    Isaiah 53:9

    • קִבְר֔וֹkivronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: grave his
  • sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.

    Isaiah 65:4

    • בַּקְּבָרִ֔יםbakevarimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: among the graves

Jeremiah

four uses
  • Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.

    Jeremiah 5:16

    • כְּקֶ֣בֶרkekeverpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a grave
  • “At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.

    Jeremiah 8:1

    • מִקִּבְרֵיהֶֽם׃mikivreihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: from graves their
  • because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

    Jeremiah 20:17

    • קִבְרִ֔יkivrinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: grave my
  • They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him put to the sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.

    Jeremiah 26:23

    • קִבְרֵ֖יkivreinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: graves of

Ezekiel

nine uses
  • Assyria is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.

    Ezekiel 32:22

    • קִבְרֹתָ֑יוkivrotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: graves its
  • Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who once spread terror in the land of the living.

    Ezekiel 32:23

    • קִבְרֹתֶ֙יהָ֙kivroteihanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: graves its
  • Among the slain they prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed among the slain.

    Ezekiel 32:25

    • קִבְרֹתֶ֑הָkivrotehanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: graves its
  • Meshech and Tubal are there with all their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living.

    Ezekiel 32:26

    • קִבְרוֹתֶ֑יהָkivroteihanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: graves its
  • Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.

    Ezekiel 37:12

    • קִבְרֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗םkivroteikhemnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: graves your
    • מִקִּבְרוֹתֵיכֶ֖םmikivroteikhempreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: from graves your
  • Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.

    Ezekiel 37:13

    • קִבְרֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗םkivroteikhemnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: graves your
    • מִקִּבְרוֹתֵיכֶ֖םmikivroteikhempreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: from graves your
  • And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.

    Ezekiel 39:11

    • קֶ֜בֶרkevernoun · masculine singulartagged: a burial site

Nahum

one use
  • The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”

    Nahum 1:14

    • קִבְרֶ֖ךָkivrechanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: grave your

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