קֶ֫בֶר
grave
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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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 22 times (33%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 19 times (28%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 19 times (28%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 7 times (10%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 67 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6913 appears — 62 distinct verses across 15 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 7 verses
- Genesis 23:4 קֶ֨בֶר֙ n c ms "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
- Genesis 23:6 קְבָרֵ֔י/נוּ קִבְר֛/וֹ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. In the choice of our tombs bury your dead. None of us will withhold from you his tomb, but that you may bury your dead."
- Genesis 23:9 קָֽבֶר n c ms that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place."
- Genesis 23:20 קָ֑בֶר n c ms The field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.
- Genesis 49:30 קָֽבֶר n c ms in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
- Genesis 50:5 בְּ/קִבְרִ֗/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"
- Genesis 50:13 קֶ֗בֶר n c ms for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Exodus 1 verse
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 19:16 בְ/קָ֑בֶר prep + n c ms Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
- Numbers 19:18 בַ/קָּֽבֶר prep det + n c ms and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:
Judges 2 verses
- Judges 8:32 בְּ/קֶ֨בֶר֙ prep + n c ms cs Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
- Judges 16:31 בְּ/קֶ֖בֶר prep + n c ms cs Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
2 Samuel 6 verses
- 2 Samuel 2:32 בְּ/קֶ֣בֶר prep + n c ms cs They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.
- 2 Samuel 3:32 קֶ֣בֶר n c ms cs They buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
- 2 Samuel 4:12 בְ/קֶֽבֶר prep + n c ms cs David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.
- 2 Samuel 17:23 בְּ/קֶ֥בֶר prep + n c ms cs When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
- 2 Samuel 19:37 קֶ֥בֶר n c ms cs Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.
- 2 Samuel 21:14 בְּ/קֶ֨בֶר֙ prep + n c ms cs They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated for the land.
1 Kings 4 verses
- 1 Kings 13:22 קֶ֥בֶר n c ms cs but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.
- 1 Kings 13:30 בְּ/קִבְר֑/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, [saying], Alas, my brother!
- 1 Kings 13:31 בַּ/קֶּ֕בֶר prep det + n c ms It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
- 1 Kings 14:13 קָ֑בֶר n c ms All Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
2 Kings 5 verses
- 2 Kings 13:21 בְּ/קֶ֣בֶר prep + n c ms cs It happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied a band; and they cast the man into the tomb of Elisha: and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
- 2 Kings 22:20 קִבְרֹתֶי/ךָ֮ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place. They brought the king word again.
- 2 Kings 23:6 קֶ֖בֶר n c ms cs He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust of it on the graves of the common people.
- 2 Kings 23:16 הַ/קְּבָרִ֤ים הַ/קְּבָרִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp ptcl def.art + n c mp As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
- 2 Kings 23:17 הַ/קֶּ֤בֶר ptcl def.art + n c ms Then he said, What monument is that which I see? The men of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.
2 Chronicles 8 verses
- 2 Chronicles 16:14 בְ/קִבְרֹתָ֗י/ו prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms They buried him in his own tombs, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' are: and they made a very great burning for him.
- 2 Chronicles 21:20 בְּ/קִבְר֥וֹת prep + n c mp cs Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
- 2 Chronicles 24:25 בְּ/קִבְר֥וֹת prep + n c mp cs When they were departed for him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they didn't bury him in the tombs of the kings.
- 2 Chronicles 28:27 לְ/קִבְרֵ֖י prep + n c mp cs Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem; for they didn't bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 32:33 קִבְרֵ֣י n c mp cs Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 34:4 הַ/קְּבָרִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.
- 2 Chronicles 34:28 קִבְרֹתֶי/ךָ֮ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of it. They brought back word to the king.
- 2 Chronicles 35:24 בְּ/קִבְר֣וֹת prep + n c mp cs So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
Nehemiah 3 verses
- Nehemiah 2:3 קִבְר֤וֹת n c mp cs I said to the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?
- Nehemiah 2:5 קִבְר֥וֹת n c mp cs I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant have found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may build it.
- Nehemiah 3:16 קִבְרֵ֣י n c mp cs After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, to the place over against the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.
Job 5 verses
- Job 3:22 קָֽבֶר n c ms Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave?
- Job 5:26 קָ֑בֶר n c ms You shall come to your grave in a full age, Like a shock of grain comes in its season.
- Job 10:19 לַ/קֶּ֥בֶר prep det + n c ms I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 17:1 קְבָרִ֥ים n c mp "My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
- Job 21:32 לִ/קְבָר֣וֹת prep + n c mp Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb.
Psalms 3 verses
- Psalms 5:9 קֶֽבֶר n c ms For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
- Psalms 88:5 קֶ֗בֶר n c ms Set apart among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
- Psalms 88:11 בַּ/קֶּ֣בֶר prep det + n c ms Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
Isaiah 4 verses
- Isaiah 14:19 מִֽ/קִּבְרְ/ךָ֙ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms But you are cast forth away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
- Isaiah 22:16 קָ֑בֶר קִבְר֔/וֹ n c ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms "What are you doing here? and who has you here, that you have hewed out a tomb here? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!"
- Isaiah 53:9 קִבְר֔/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
- Isaiah 65:4 בַּ/קְּבָרִ֔ים prep det + n c mp who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Jeremiah 4 verses
- Jeremiah 5:16 כְּ/קֶ֣בֶר prep + n c ms Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.
- Jeremiah 8:1 מִ/קִּבְרֵי/הֶֽם prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp At that time, says Yahweh, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
- Jeremiah 20:17 קִבְרִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
- Jeremiah 26:23 קִבְרֵ֖י n c mp cs and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
Ezekiel 7 verses
- Ezekiel 32:22 קִבְרֹתָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
- Ezekiel 32:23 קִבְרֹתֶ֨י/הָ֙ n c mp 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 32:25 קִבְרֹתֶ֑/הָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those who are slain.
- Ezekiel 32:26 קִבְרוֹתֶ֑י/הָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 37:12 קִבְרֽוֹתֵי/כֶ֗ם מִ/קִּבְרוֹתֵי/כֶ֖ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
- Ezekiel 37:13 קִבְרֽוֹתֵי/כֶ֗ם מִ/קִּבְרוֹתֵי/כֶ֖ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
- Ezekiel 39:11 קֶ֜בֶר n c ms It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog.
Nahum 1 verse
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קבר — transliterated qeber — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “grave.” Its English rendering has broadened — “grave” classically, “tomb” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 62 verses — moderately common. It first appears in Genesis 23:4. Related forms include קבר, קבורה and קברות התאוה. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6913 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 →
- 62
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 62 distinct verses.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #587
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 587 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 62 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 8 verses 13%
- Genesis 7 verses 11%
- Ezekiel 7 verses 11%
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 62 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 33 verses · 53%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 19 verses · 31%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 10 verses · 16%
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 14×, Graves 13×, Sepulchre 12×
- American Standard Version: Grave 15×, Graves 11×, Sepulchre 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tomb 17×, Grave 15×, Graves 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Grave 18×, Graves 14×, Grave of 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6913 across 67 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 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 H6913 across 67 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 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 H6913 across 66 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6913 across 69 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- grave, sepulchre, tomb
Word origin
n.m. 1 K 13:31 grave, sepulchre;—abs. ק׳ Gn 23:4 +, קָ֑בֶר 1 K 14:13 +; cstr. קֶבֶר Ju 8:32 +; sf. קִבְרִי Gn 50:5, etc.; pl. קְבָרִים Ex 14:11 +, cstr. קִבְרֵי Je 26:23 +, sf. קִבְרֵיהֶם 8:1; also קְבָרוֹת Jb 21:32, cstr. קִבְרוֹת Ne 2:3 +, sf. קִבְרֹתָיו Ez 32:22; 2 Ch 16:14, etc.;—grave, Ex 14:11; Nu 11:34; Ju 8:32; 2 S 2:32; 1 K 13:22 +; אֲחֻזַּת ק׳ Gn 23:4, 9, 20; 49:30; 50:13; hewn out (חָצַב) Is 22:16(×2); מִבֶּטֶן לַקֶּבֶר אוּבָ֑ל Jb 10:19; fig. וַתְּהִי־לִ׳ אִמִּי ק׳ Je 20:17; שֹׁכְבֵי ק׳ ψ 88:6 the slain lying in grave; הַיּשְׁבִים בַּקְבָרִים Is 65:4 they who sit in the tombs (occult rite, prob. in necromancy, etc., cf. Che and RSSem. i. 180 ff.; 2nd ed. 197 ff.); קֶבֶר בְּנֵי הָעָם 2 K 23:6 i.e. burial-place of common people, so קִבְרֵי בְּנֵי הָעָם Je 26:23; pl. intens. Jb 17:1, also of stately (royal) sepulchre 2 K 22:20 = 2 Ch 34:28, Ne 3:16; 2 Ch 16:14; cf. 35:24; Jb 21:32; conceived as in lower world Ez 32:22, 23, 25, 26; ‖ אֲבַדּוֹן ψ 88:12; ψ 49:12 read קְבָרִים for קִרְבָּם Vrss and most; ק׳ פָּתוּחַ sim. of quiver Je 5:16; fig. ק׳ פ׳ גְּרֹנָם ψ 5:10; of exile Ez 37:12(×2), 13(×2)
— 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.
קָבַר
- (b. h.) [to cave out; to arch,] to bury. Snh. 52ᵃ הנראה מי קוֹבֵר את מי (Ms. M. הא נראה) we shall see, which will cover which (which will die first). Sot. 14ᵃ הקב"ה ק׳ … קְבוֹר מתים the Lord buried the dead, … thou, too, bury the dead (consider attending to the dead a religious duty). Nidd. 24ᵇ קובר מתים הייתי I used to be a grave-digger. B. Bath. 15ᵇ לא … לִקְבּוֹר וכ׳ he had no place where to bury Sarah; Ex. R. s. 6. Treat. S’maḥ. ch. XII קָבְרֵנִי תחלה וכ׳ first bury me in the valley, and then collect my bones. Ib. קִבְרוּ אותי תחת וכ׳ bury me at the feet of my father. Sabb. 114ᵃ אל תִּקְבְּרוּנִי לא וכ׳ bury me neither in white clothes nor in black &c.; a. fr.—Part. pass. קָבוּר; f. קְבוּרָה. Keth. 111ᵃ כל הק׳ בא"י כאילו ק׳ וכ׳ he that is buried in Palestine is as though buried under the altar. Ber. 18ᵇ שאני ק׳ במחצלת וכ׳ for I am buried in a reed mat. Gitt. 56ᵇ (ref. to Koh. VIII, 10) קְבוּרִים ממש וכ׳ it really means buried things, for even hidden things were discovered by them, v. קָבַץ; a. fr. e.g. Ecclesiastes 8:10
- to be buried. Snh. 47ᵃ לא נספד ולא נ׳ if a body has been neither lamented over (v. סָפַד) nor buried. Ib.ᵇ לא יִקָּבֵר בו וכ׳ he must never be buried in that place; a. fr.
- to bury (one after the other). Ib. 113ᵃ היה מְקַבֵּר והולך וכ׳ he successively buried (his children) beginning with Abiham &c.
קְבַר
- 1. same, to bury. Targ. Gen. XXIII, 4. Targ. Ps. LXXIX, 3; a. fr.—Part. pass. קְבִיר; f. קְבִירָא &c. Targ. O. Deut. XXXIII, 21 (Y. קָבוּר, Hebr. form). Targ. Ruth I, 17. Targ. Job XXVII, 15; a. fr.—Snh. 46ᵇ לא בעינא דלִיקְבְּרוּהָ וכ׳ I do not want them to bury this man (I want not to be buried when I am dead). Ib. מדקַבְרֵיה וכ׳ because the Lord buried Moses. Sabb. 151ᵇ וקביר, v. חֲפִיר; a. fr.—Ab. Zar. 38ᵃ וק׳ ביה ישראל וכ׳ after an Israelite had hidden a pumpkin in it (the oven).
- 2. (of tide) to overflow, inundate. Gen. R. s. 13; Koh. R. to I, 7 דמרבי וקָבֵר which grows and floods, v. קַבְרִיאֵל.
- as preced. Pi. Targ. Num. XXXIII, 4; a. e.
- to be buried. Targ. Gen. XV, 15. Targ. Jer. VIII, 2; a. fr.—Snh. l. c. מדאִיקְּבוּר צדיקי since righteous men are buried (it would seem that burial is not for the sake of purging the dead from sin). Ib. הנך נמי לִיקַּבְּרוּ וכ׳ they (the other members of the house of Jeroboam) ought also to have been buried for the sake of atonement. Ib. 104ᵃ קברה ולא אִיקְבְּרָא וכ׳ he buried it (Joiakim’s skull), and it would not remain under ground, buried it again &c.; a. e.
קֶבֶר
- preced.) grave. Snh. 47ᵇ ק׳ חדש a fresh grave (that has been dug but not used). Ib. ק׳ בנין a grave on which something has been built, i.e. an arched grave (not flat). Ib. שלשה קברות הן ק׳ הנמצא there are three kinds of graves (with reference to law): a grave that has been discovered (a fresh grave in which somebody was buried without the consent of the owner of the ground); ק׳ הידוע a known grave (in which one was buried with the owner’s consent); ק׳ המזיק את הרבים a grave which interferes with public comfort (made in a thoroughfare). Y. Naz. IX, 57ᵈ top., v. תְּהוֹם. Ohol. XVII, 1 החורש את הק׳ if one passes the plough over a grave. Koh. R. to VII, 8 וכיון שקברוהו … את קִבְרוֹ when they had buried him (Elisha-Aḥer), a fire came to burn his grave; a. v. fr.—Pl. קְבָרִים, קְבָרוֹת. Taan. 25ᵇ תקנתם ק׳ וכ׳ have you prepared graves for yourselves (are you ready to die)? Ib. 22ᵇ שלא יהא בתיהם קִבְרֵיהֶם that their houses may not become their graves (that their dwellings may not fall down from excessive rains); Y. Yoma V, 42ᶜ top שלא יעשו … קִבְרֵיהֶן. Ḥag. 22ᵇ נשתטח על קִבְרֵי וכ׳ he prostrated himself over the graves of &c. Yeb. 47ᵇ שני ק׳ נמסרו וכ׳ the court has charge of two burial places (for culprits). Snh. VI, 5 ולא היו קוברין אותו בקִבְרוֹת אבותיו they did not bury him (the culprit) in the burial place of their ancestors; a. fr.—בֵּית הקברות (abbr. בה"ק) cemetery; pl. בָּתֵּי ק׳. Ber. 18ᵇ הלך ולן בב"הק he went and spent the night in the cemetery. Snh. l. c. (46ᵇ) שני בתי ק׳ וכ׳ two burial grounds were at the disposal of the courts, one for those put to death by the sword, and one &c.; a. fr.—Trnsf. uterus (containing an embryo). Nidd. 21ᵃ באיפשר לפתיחת הק׳ וכ׳ they differ as to whether the uterus can open (to pass the embryo) without discharging blood. Sabb. 129ᵃ חיה כל זמן שהק׳ פתוח וכ׳ for a woman in confinement you must violate the Sabbath laws as long as the uterus is open, whether she says that she needs it or that she needs it not. Ib. מאימתי פתיחת הק׳ when does the opening of the womb begin (in regard to Sabbath laws)?; עד מתי … הק׳ how long is it considered open? Ohol. VII, 4 אין לנפלים פ׳ הק׳ וכ׳ in the case of abortions the laws of levitical cleanness connected with the opening of the womb do not apply, unless &c., v. פִּיקָא I; Tosef. ib. VIII, 8; a. fr.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 58 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 62 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 23:4
- Exodus 14:11
- Numbers 19:16
- Judges 8:32
- 2 Samuel 2:32
- 1 Kings 13:22
- 2 Kings 13:21
- 2 Chronicles 16:14
- Job 3:22
- Psalms 5:9
- Isaiah 14:19
- Jeremiah 5:16
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.
