Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7128
קְרָב
qerabker-awb'
battle
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qᵉrâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7128is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7128
hostile encounter
The King James renders it: battle, war.
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
qerab is rendered "battle". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 17:11Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.
2 Samuel 17:11בַּקְרָֽב׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's nine uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- battle3
- and war1
- for the war1
- from battle1
- in the battle1
- war1
- wars1
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 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- קְרָֽב׃2
- בַּקְרָֽב׃1
- וּֽקֲרָב־1
- לַקְרָ֑ב1
- מִקֲּרָב־1
- קְ֝רָ֗ב1
- קְרָ֑ב1
- קְרָב֥וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
2 Samuel
one use
Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.
- בַּקְרָֽב׃bakravpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the battle
Job
one use
which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
- קְ֝רָ֗בkeravnoun · masculine singulartagged: battle
Psalms
five uses
He redeems my soul in peace from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me.
- מִקֲּרָב־mikarov-preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from battle
His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.
- וּֽקֲרָב־ukarov-conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and war
Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
- קְרָב֥וֹתkeravotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: wars
The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.
- קְרָֽב׃keravnoun · masculine singulartagged: battle
Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
- לַקְרָ֑בlakravpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the war
Ecclesiastes
one use
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
- קְרָ֑בkeravnoun · masculine singulartagged: war
Zechariah
one use
Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.
- קְרָֽב׃keravnoun · masculine singulartagged: battle
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.