קֵבָה
belly
also: stomach, maw 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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6896 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.
Deuteronomy 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.
קבה (qêbâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “belly.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. Deuteronomy dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Deuteronomy 18:3. Ranging over 3 senses, its meaning includes “stomach” and “maw”. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6896 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
- Deuteronomy 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.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Maw 1×
- American Standard Version: Maw 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Stomach 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Stomach 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6896 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6896 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6896 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6896 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 3 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.
- stomach, belly, maw
- stomach (of sacrificial victim)
- belly (of woman)
Word origin
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.
*קַבָּה
- (denom. of נָקַב) curse. Snh. 92ᵃ top (ref. to יקבהו, Prov. XI, 26) אין ק׳ אלא קללה (Ms. F. קֹב; Ag. Hatt. קוֹב, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 1) kabbah (the noun from the same root as יקבהו) means curse (with ref. to Num. XXIII, 8); (Yalk. Prov. 947 יקבוהו); Sot. 41ᵇ קוֹב. e.g. Proverbs 11:26
*קִבָּה
- (denom. of קַב 2) to put the leg in a ḳab, to put on a wooden leg (pretending to be lame). Keth. 68ᵃ המְקַבֶּה את רגליו ואת שוקו Ar. ed. Koh. (read: … רגלו והמקפח את שוקו; ed. Only המקפח את שוקו), v. קָפַח.
קֵבָה
- maw. Ḥull. XI, 1. Ib. 134ᵇ (ref. to Deut. XVIII, 3) להביא חלב שע"ג הק׳ וכ׳ this (הַ) serves to include the fat surrounding and inside the maw; a. e.—Esp. rennet, used to curdle milk. Ab. Zar. II, 5 קֵיבַת נבלה, קיבה של נ׳, v. עָמַד. Ib. קיבת עולה rennet of a burnt-offering. Y. Bets. I, 60ᵃ קיבת הגוי rennet supplied by a gentile. Ib. bot. ק׳ ממקום אחר באת the rennet in the maw comes from outside (is not considered a part of the animal itself); a. fr.—Pl. קֵבוֹת, קֵי׳. Ib. התירו קֵיבוֹתֵיהֶם they allowed to use the rennets of these sheep; Y. Ab. Zar. II, 41ᶜ bot. e.g. Deuteronomy 18:3
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 H6896, 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
Derived from this word
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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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