קַב
cab
‘cab’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6894 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Kings 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“cab” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun קב (qab). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 2 Kings. Scripture uses it exactly once, at 2 Kings 6:25. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6894 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Kings 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Cab 1×
- American Standard Version: Kab 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cab 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Kab of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6894 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6894 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6894 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6894 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a dry measure - cab, kab
- about 1.5 litres, 1/6 of a seah, or 1/18 of an ephah
Word origin
קַב n.[m.] ḳab;—a measure of capacity, BH only dry measure
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קבב (qâbab) (H6895) — to curse.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
קֹב
- , v. קַבָּה
קַב
- קבב to hollow out, arch; cmp. גבב,
- 1. Kab, a measure of capacity, one sixth of a S’ah. Sabb. 11ᵇ הדיוט שהקק קב וכ׳ if an unskilled man caves out a Kab in a log (on the Sabbath); [Ar. refers to קַב 2, v. infra]. Tosef. B. Bath. V, 10 בכל מקום … קב וכ׳ everywhere (in all shops) they must make (keep) measures … of a Kab, half a Kab &c.; B. Bath. 89ᵇ. Sot. 8ᵇ a. e. קב וחצי קב וכ׳ minor measures of sin, v. סְאָה. Y. Ḥall. II, 58ᶜ bot. קב טיברני dough of a Tiberian Kab of flour. B. Mets. 80ᵇ קב לכתף one Kab (in addition to the load agreed upon) for a carrier is an unlawful overload; a. fr.—Sot. III, 4, a. e. בקב ותפלות, v. תִּפְלוּת. Snh. 29ᵇ (in Chald. dict.) ההוא … קב רשו there was a man whom they nicknamed ‘a Kabful of notes of indebtedness’.—קב ונקי, v. נָקִי I.—Du. קַבַּיִים; pl. קַבִּים, קַבִּין. B. Mets. 21ᵃ ק׳ בשמונה וכ׳ if one finds two Kabs of fruits scattered within a radius of eight cubits.—Ḥall. II, 3 יעשנה ק׳ let him make his doughs Kab-wise (so as to be exempt from the priest’s share). Ib. 4. Kidd. 49ᵇ עשרה ק׳ וכ׳ ten measures of &c. Ber. 22ᵃ תשעה ק׳ nine Kabs of water poured over a person in place of immersion; a. fr.—Denom. קַבִּי, pl. קַבִּיִּים pieces of dough containing a Kab of flour each. Ḥall. II, 3 אבל ק׳ אין להם חלק בשם (Y. ed. חלה) doughs made of a Kab each have no share in the name of ḥallah
- 2. a piece of wood hollowed out for the stump of a leg, a sort of artificial foot (cmp. אָנְקִטְמִין). Yeb. 102ᵇ (חלצה) בקב הקיטע if a woman performed the ceremony of Ḥălitsah (חֲלִיצָה) by taking off the Yabam’s artificial foot. Sabb. VI, 8; a. e.—Pl. as ab. Ḥag. 4ᵃ בעלי ק׳ stump-legged persons; a. e.
- 3. cavity, the lower part of a trumpet or horn. Kel. XI, 7 הקב שלה Mish. ed. a. Ar. (Talm. ed. הקו, ed. Dehr. הקב).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6894, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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