קִבְרוֹת הַתַּאֲוָה
Kibroth-hattaavah
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Kibroth-hattaavah’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6914 appears in the Book of Numbers — 4 distinct verses. 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.
Numbers
- Numbers 11:34 קִבְר֣וֹת הַֽתַּאֲוָ֑ה n Proper n Proper The name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
- Numbers 11:35 מִ/קִּבְר֧וֹת הַֽתַּאֲוָ֛ה prep + n Proper n Proper From Kibrothhattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.
- Numbers 33:16 בְּ/קִבְרֹ֥ת הַֽתַּאֲוָֽה prep + n Proper n Proper They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth-hattaavah.
- Numbers 33:17 מִ/קִּבְרֹ֣ת הַֽתַּאֲוָ֑ה prep + n Proper n Proper They traveled from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.
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.
The Hebrew name קברות התאוה centers on the idea of “Kibroth-hattaavah.” It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Numbers dominates its distribution — 4 of 5 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Numbers 11:34. For the data behind this summary, explore 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6914 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 4 verses 80%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 20%
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 5 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 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: Kibrothhattaavah 5×
- American Standard Version: Kibroth-hattaavah 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Kibroth-hattaavah 5×, From 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Kibroth hattaavah 4×, Hattaavah 3×, Kibroth 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6914 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6914 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6914 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6914 across 10 tagged occurrences — 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.
- Kibroth-hattaavah = "graves of lust"
- a station of Israel in the wilderness 3 campsites away from Sinai near the gulf of Akabah
Word origin
קִבְרוֹת הַתַּאֲוָה n.pr.loc. a station in wilderness ( the graves of desire )
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קבר (qeber) (H6913) — grave.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H6914 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַֽתַּאֲוָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 9:22 | 3 |
| בְּ/קִבְרֹ֥ת | Noun, Proper | Numbers 33:16 | 1 |
| הַֽתַּאֲוָ֛ה | Noun, Proper | Numbers 11:35 | 1 |
| הַֽתַּאֲוָֽה | Noun, Proper | Numbers 33:16 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/קִבְרֹ֖ת | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 9:22 | 1 |
| מִ/קִּבְר֧וֹת | Noun, Proper | Numbers 11:35 | 1 |
| מִ/קִּבְרֹ֣ת | Noun, Proper | Numbers 33:17 | 1 |
| קִבְר֣וֹת | Noun, Proper | Numbers 11:34 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Kibroth-hattaavah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
The graves of the longing or of lust, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness. It was probably in the Wady Murrah, and has been identified with the Erweis el-Ebeirig, where the remains of an ancient encampment have been found, about 30 miles north-east of Sinai, and exactly a day's journey from Ain Hudherah.
"Here began the troubles of the journey. First, complaints broke out among the people, probably at the heat, the toil, and the privations of the march; and then God at once punished them by lightning, which fell on the hinder part of the camp, and killed many persons, but ceased at the intercession of Moses (Num. 11:1, 2). Then a disgust fell on the multitude at having nothing to eat but the manna day after day, no change, no flesh, no fish, no high-flavoured vegetables, no luscious fruits...The people loathed the light food,' and cried out to Moses, Give us flesh, give us flesh, that we may eat.'" In this emergency Moses, in despair, cried unto God. An answer came. God sent "a prodigious flight of quails, on which the people satiated their gluttonous appetite for a full month. Then punishment fell on them: they loathed the food which they had desired; it bred disease in them; the divine anger aggravated the disease into a plague, and a heavy mortality was the consequence. The dead were buried without the camp; and in memory of man's sin and of the divine wrath this name, Kibroth-hattaavah, the Graves of Lust, was given to the place of their sepulchre" (Num. 11:34, 35; 33:16, 17; Deut. 9:22; comp. Ps. 78:30, 31)., Rawlinson's Moses, p. 175. From this encampment they journeyed in a north-eastern direction to Hazeroth.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
i.e. as in the margin, the graves of lust, a station of the Israelites in the wilderness, where, growing tired of manna and desiring flesh, they murmured, and God sent them quails in great abundance, but smote great numbers of them with a plague and they died. It is about three days journey from Sinai, and near the Gulf of Akabah and the Wady el Hudherah (Hazeroth.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the graves of lust
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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