קְבֻרָה
grave
also: burial, burial site fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 11 times (79%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (21%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 14 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6900 appears — 13 distinct verses across 9 books. 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.
Genesis 2 verses
- Genesis 35:20 קְבֻרָתָ֑/הּ קְבֻֽרַת n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs n c fs cs Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
- Genesis 47:30 בִּ/קְבֻרָתָ֑/ם prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." He said, "I will do as you have said."
Deuteronomy 1 verse
1 Samuel 1 verse
2 Kings 3 verses
- 2 Kings 9:28 בִ/קְבֻרָת֛/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.
- 2 Kings 21:26 בִּ/קְבֻרָת֖/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 23:30 בִּ/קְבֻֽרָת֑/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 32:23 קְבֻרָתָ֑/הּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 32:24 קְבֻרָתָ֑/הּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
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.
“grave” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun קבורה (qᵉbûwrâh). First canonically at Genesis 35:20, it enters the text early. It turns up in 13 verses across 9 books, an uncommon footprint. Not a single-sense word: its full sense range also takes in “burial” and “burial site”. From the same root come קבר and קבר. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6900 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 →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
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 13 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 62%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 23%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 15%
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: Grave 4×, Sepulchre 4×, Burial 3×
- American Standard Version: Burial 3×, Grave 3×, Sepulchre 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tomb 4×, Grave 3×, Burial 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Grave 3×, Tomb 3×, Graves 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6900 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6900 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6900 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6900 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. grave Gn 35:20(×2); 47:30; Dt 34:6; 1 S 10:2; 2 K 9:28; 21:26; 23:30; Ez 32:23, 24; שְׂדֵה הַקּ׳ 2 Ch 26:23. e.g. Genesis 35:20
- 2. burial, Is 14:20; Ec 6:3; קְבוּרַת חֲמוֹר Je 22:19. e.g. Isaiah 14:20
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
and (4 times) קְבוּרָה n.f. grave, burial;—abs. קְבוּרָה Is 14:20 + 2 times; cstr. קְבוּרַת Je 22:19, קְבֻרַת Gn 35:20 +; sf. קְבֻרָתוֹ Dt 34:6 +;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קבר (qâbar) (H6912) — to bury.
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.
קְבוּרָה
- burial. M. Kat. 28ᵃ (ref. to Num. XX, 1) סמוך למיתה ק׳ immediately after death, burial is mentioned (without mentioning the exhibition of the body in an open place prior to burial). Snh. 46ᵇ (ref. to Deut. XXI, 23) מכאן רמז לק׳ וכ׳ here is a hint in the Torah that burying the dead is a religious duty. Ib. ק׳ משום בזיונא, v. בִּזְיוֹנָא. Y. Taan. IV, 69ᵃ top משניתנו … לק׳ when those slain at Bethar were permitted to be buried; Ber. 48ᵇ. Gen. R. s. 62 מקְבוּרָתָהּ … לקְבוּרָתוֹ וכ׳ thirty-eight years intervened between Sarah’s funeral and that of Abraham; a. fr.—Targ. Y. II, Deut. XXXIII, 21 בית ק׳ cemetery e.g. Numbers 20:1
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H6900 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| קְבֻרָתָ֑/הּ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 32:23 | 3 |
| בִ/קְבֻרָת֛/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 2 Kings 9:28 | 1 |
| בִּ/קְבֻֽרָת֑/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 2 Kings 23:30 | 1 |
| בִּ/קְבֻרָת֖/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 2 Kings 21:26 | 1 |
| בִּ/קְבֻרָתָ֑/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 47:30 | 1 |
| בִּ/קְבוּרָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 14:20 | 1 |
| הַ/קְּבוּרָה֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 26:23 | 1 |
| קְבֻ֣רָת֔/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 34:6 | 1 |
| קְבֻֽרַת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 35:20 | 1 |
| קְבֻרַ֥ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 1 Samuel 10:2 | 1 |
| קְבוּרַ֥ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 22:19 | 1 |
| קְבוּרָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 6:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6900, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 13 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 35:20
- Deuteronomy 34:6
- 1 Samuel 10:2
- 2 Kings 9:28
- 2 Chronicles 26:23
- Ecclesiastes 6:3
- Isaiah 14:20
- Jeremiah 22:19
- Ezekiel 32:23
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
