קָרַב
to approach
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘bring near’
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘draw near for a purpose’
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem. Here: ‘in space’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Form
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
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).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H7126 appears in the Book of Joshua — 9 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.
Joshua
- Joshua 3:4 תִּקְרְב֣וּ Qal juss 2mp Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way heretofore.
- Joshua 7:14 וְ/נִקְרַבְתֶּ֥ם יִקְרַ֣ב תִּקְרַ֣ב יִקְרַ֖ב conj + Niphal wpf 2mp Qal impf 3ms Qal impf 3fs Qal impf 3ms In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which Yahweh takes shall come near by families; and the family which Yahweh shall take shall come near by households; and the household which Yahweh shall take shall come near man by man.
- Joshua 7:16 וַ/יַּקְרֵ֥ב conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel near by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
- Joshua 7:17 וַ/יַּקְרֵב֙ וַ/יַּקְרֵ֞ב conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms and he brought near the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zerahites: and he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
- Joshua 7:18 וַ/יַּקְרֵ֥ב conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms and he brought near his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
- Joshua 8:5 נִקְרַ֖ב Qal impf 1cp and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;
- Joshua 8:23 וַ/יַּקְרִ֥בוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp The king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
- Joshua 10:24 קִרְב֗וּ וַֽ/יִּקְרְב֔וּ Qal impv 2mp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp It happened, when they brought forth those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings. They came near, and put their feet on the necks of them.
- Joshua 17:4 וַ/תִּקְרַ֡בְנָה conj + Qal wimpf 3fp They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers: therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.
About this entry
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קרב — transliterated qârab — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to approach.” Its English rendering has broadened — “offer” classically, “present” (Berean Standard Bible) and “and” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 263 verses in 27 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Leviticus (35% of all occurrences). Read the stem: it spans 4 stems, including Qal and Niphal. See the sense tree, 263-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
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About this word
Strong's H7126 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 →
- 263
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 263 distinct verses.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #177
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 177 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 263 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 263 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 184 verses · 70%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 62 verses · 24%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 17 verses · 6%
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: Offer 15×, He shall offer 14×, He brought 12×
- American Standard Version: He shall offer 17×, Ye shall offer 13×, Offer 12×
- Berean Standard Bible: Present 23×, Approached 12×, You are to present 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: And 29×, He shall present 19×, Present 19×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7126 across 281 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 96 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 H7126 across 279 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 114 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 H7126 across 276 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 103 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 4 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7126 across 359 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 71 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
21 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
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 21 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.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. ק׳ Gn 20:4 +; 3 fs. קָרֵ֑בָה Zp 3:2, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִקְרַב Gn 37:18 + etc.; Imv. ms. קְרַב 2 S 20:16 +, קָ֫רְבָה ψ 69:19; mpl. קִרְבוּ Ex 16:9; Inf. abs. קָרוֹב Ec 4:17 De Siegf Ol§ 249c Sta§ 642c Köi. 175; cstr. קְרֹב ψ 27:2; 32:9, לְקָרְבָה Ex 36:2, etc.;—approach: e.g. Genesis 20:4
- 1.
- a. c. אֶל pers. (27 times) Gn 37:18; Nu 18:4; Mal 3:5 (+ לַמִּשְׁפָּט), Jon 1:6 +; in kindness 1 K 2:7, of י׳ to help ψ 69:19; for war, battle, Ex 14:20; Ju 20:24; unto God †1 S 14:36 (+ הֲלוֹם), Zp 3:2, י׳ †Ez 44:15; Is 48:16; approach sexually, of man, †Gn 20:4; Is 8:3; Dt 22:14; Lv 18:6, 14, 19; (H) Ez 18:6; of woman †Lv 20:16 (אֶל of beast); ק׳ אֵלֶיךָ Is 65:5 = keep to thyself (‖ אַל־תִּגַּשׁ־בִּי); c. עַל pers., in hostility, ψ 27:2 (+ inf. purpose), so prob. מִקְרָב־לִי ψ 55:19 that none may approach me (ק׳ inf. cstr., so Che Bae Dr, > n. = battle). e.g. Genesis 37:18
- b. אֶל loc. Ex 32:19; Dt 2:37; 20:10; Jos 8:5; Pr 5:8; אֶל rei Jos 3:3; Ez 42:14; 44:16; Lv 22:3; (H), Ex 36:2 + 5 times P; עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּחַ 2 K 16:12; אֶל־הַמִּלְחָמָה Dt 20:2. e.g. Exodus 32:19
- c. לִפְנֵי pers. (י׳) Ex 16:9; Lv 16:1 ψ 119:169 (of cry); before men Nu 9:6; Jos 17:4. e.g. Exodus 16:9
- d. מוּל gent. Dt 2:19. e.g. Deuteronomy 2:19
- e. ב loc. Ju 19:13 ψ 91:10 (of evil). e.g. Judges 19:13
- f. ל loc. Jb 33:22; adv. loc. הֲלֹם Ex 3:5, הֵ֫נָּה Is 57:3 (cf. g, 2 S 20:16). e.g. Job 33:22
- g. draw near for a purpose, c. Inf. 1 S 17:48; 2 S 15:5; Dt 25:11; Ex 12:48; Lv 21:17; Nu 17:5; Is 34:1; Ec 4:17, + (Inf. om.) Lv 21:18; c. וְ subord. 2 S 20:16 (+ עַד־הֵ֫נָּה); c. לַמִּשְׁפָּט Is 41:1 (cf. a. Mal 3:5); + Imv. Dt 5:24; Jos 10:24; Lv 10:4, + Impf. Jos 10:24; Lv 10:5. e.g. 1 Samuel 17:48
- h. abs. (15 times) Jos 7:14(×3) (technically of approach to sanctuary, for trial by lot), Is 5:19 (of י׳’s counsel), 41:5 +, La 3:57 (of י׳, to help); וַתִּק׳ הַמִּלְחָמָה 1 K 20:29 i.e. the battle was joined; of calamities Ez 9:1, ק׳ קִצֵּנוּ La 4:18. e.g. Joshua 7:14
- 2. of time, draw near, Gn 27:41; Dt 15:9; Ez 12:23; spec. ק׳ יְמֵי פ׳ לָמוּת Gn 47:29; Dt 31:14; 1 K 2:1. e.g. Genesis 27:41
Niphal
- Pf. 3 ms. consec. וְנִקְרַב אֶל־הָאֱלֹהִים Ex 22:7 he shall be brought unto God (at the sanctuary), also (abs., reflex.) 2 mpl. consec. וְנִקְרַבְתֶּם Jos 7:14 (cf. Qal 1 h). e.g. Exodus 22:7
Piel
- Pf. 1 s. קֵרַבְתִּי Is 46:13; 3 pl. קֵרְבוּ Ho 7:6 (v. infr.), Ez 36:8; Impf. 2 ms. וּתְקָרֵב ψ 65:5; 1 s. sf. אֲקָֽרְבֶנּוּ Jb 31:37; Imv. ms. קָרַב Ez 37:17; mpl. קָֽרְבוּ Is 41:21;—cause to approach, bring near: e.g. Isaiah 46:13
- 1. in space, acc. rei + אֶל Ez 37:17; = receive, acc. pers. Jb 31:37 (Thes Du; most approach majestically, march up to), acc. om. ψ 65:5; ק׳ רִיבְכֶם Is 41:21 bring on your suit! e.g. Ezekiel 37:17
- 2. in time, ק׳ צִדְקָתִי Is 46:13 (of י׳), ק׳ לָבוֹא Ez 36:8 they have brought near to come, brought their coming near, it is at hand (cf. Hiph. Gn 12:11).—Ho 7:6 read בָּעַר for קֵרְבוּ (קִרְבּוֹ RSProph. iv, N. 19), cf. 𝔊 Now. e.g. Isaiah 46:13
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 ms. הִקְרִיב Gn 12:11 +, -רִב Nu 7:19; 2 ms. וְהִקְרַבְתָּ֫ Ex 29:3 +, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יַקְרִיב Ez 44:27 +, -רִב 46:4; וַיַּקְרֵב Ju 3:17 +; 1 pl. וַנַּקְרֵב Nu 31:50, etc.; Imv. ms. הַקְרֵב Nu 3:6 +, etc.; Inf. abs. הַקְרֵב Lv 6:7; cstr. הַקְרִיב Ju 3:18 +, etc.; Pt. מַקְרִיב Lv 3:1 +, etc.;— e.g. Genesis 12:11
- 1.
- a. bring near, bring, present, c. acc. rei, Ju 5:25 (+ בְּסֵפֶל), cf. Ex 29:3 (+ בַּסָּל); tribute ψ 72:10; מִנְחָה Ju 3:17 (+ ל pers.), v 18; cf. (ל pers.) Mal 1:8; שָׂדֶה בְּשָׂדֶה יַק׳ Is 5:8 i.e. join, incorporate; pregn., c. מִן loc. 2 K 16:14 (v. RSSem i. 466 ff., 2nd ed. 486 ff.); acc. of case, affair, †Dt 1:17 (+ אֶל pers.), Nu 27:5 (+ לִפְנֵי י׳); c. acc. pers.: + אֶל pers. Nu 15:33; 25:6; Jos 8:23, + אֶל reflex. Ex 28:1, + אֶת (prep.) reflex. Nu 18:2; abs., of pers., make an approach Ex 14:10. e.g. Judges 5:25
- b. of time, הִקְרִיב לָבוֹא Gn 12:11; תַּקְרִיב לָלֶדֶת Is 26:17; וַתַּקְרִיבִי יָמַיִךְ Ez 22:4. e.g. Genesis 12:11
- 2. as term. techn. (c. 158 times), chiefly in Ez HP, bring near, of presenting, dedicating, or offering to י׳:
- a. c. acc. pers., (1) Aaron and his sons, and Levites, sometimes c. אֶל, לְפְנֵי, pers. or loc., Ex 29:4, 8; 40:12, 14; Lv 3:6; 7:35; 8:6, 13, 24 Nu 8:9, 10; 16:5(×2), 9, 10, cf. (of prince, subj. י׳) Je 30:21; (2) for selection by let Jos 7:16, 17(×2), 18; 1 S 10:20, 21; (3) for ordeal of מֵי הַמָּרִים Nu 5:16. e.g. Exodus 29:4
- b. usually (c. 142 times) c. acc. of offering, with or without further complement (אֶל, לִפְנֵי loc., לי׳, לְפְנֵי י׳; rarely אֶל, ל, of priest, etc.): (1) animal-offering Lv 3:7, 12; 8:18, 22 (all + סָמַךְ of offerer), Ex 29:10; Lv 1:15; 4:3, 14 +, etc.; (2) זֶבַח Lv 7:16; עֹלָה Nu 29:13, 36; אִשֶּׁה Lv 3:3, 14; 23:8, 25 +; †(3) blood Lv 1:5 (+ זָרַק), 7:33; 9:9; (4) מִנְחָה Lv 2:8; 6:7; 7:12; 23:16; Nu 5:25; 6:16; 15:9; לֶחֶם אֱלֹהָיו Lv 21:6, 8, 17, 21, etc.; (5) incense Nu 16:35, censer v 17; 17:3, 4; אֵשׁ זָרָה Lv 10:1 Nu 3:4; 26:61; (6) especially c. acc. cogn. קָרְבָּן Lv 1:2(×2), 14; 2:1, 4; 22:18 Nu 7:10, 11; 31:50 + (c. 33 times); (7) acc. om. 2 Ch 35:12. e.g. Leviticus 3:7
- c. abs. make an offering Nu 7:2, 18. e.g. Numbers 7:2
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
vb. come near, approach (NH approach, be offered; Assyrian ḳarâbu, approach; Arabic قَرِبَ, قَرُبَ be near, approach; so Ethiopic ቀርበ: Sab. קרב approach a woman (sexually, v. 1 a infr.), DHMHofmus. No. 6. 1. 2, but also gen. דֿ רחק וקרב he who is far and he who is near CISiv, no. 95, 7, 8 cf. SabDenkmNo. 12, 9, 10; Aramaic קְרֵב, ܩܪܶܒ, approach; also, = oblation, Sab. קרבן DHMZMG xxx (1876), 672 Arabic قُرْبَانٌ, Old Aramaic קרבן, 𝔗 קוּרְבָּנָא, Syriac ܩܽܘܪܒܳܢܳܐ; cf. Assyrian kurbannu (כ), DlHWB 351);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
קָרֵב
- (b. h.)
- 1. to join, come near, be near; to be offered as קָרְבָּן. Zeb. VIII, 2 יִקְרַב לשם מי שהוא let it be offered in behalf of him to whom it may belong. Ib. 5 אם ק׳ … יִקְרְבוּ וכ׳ if one of the heads has been offered, let all of them be offered. Ib. 67ᵇ; Ḳinnim III, 3 חטאת קְרֵיבָה למעלה וכ׳ the sin-offering may have been offered on top and the burnt-offering beneath it. Men. VI, 1 הקומץ ק׳ … קְרֵבִים לעצמן the handful (of the priests’ meal-offering) is offered separately and the remainder separately; Y. Sot. III, 19ᵇ top קְרֵיבִין. Sifré Num. 29 קבע זמן לקריבים … למקריבים a time is fixed for the things to be offered (Lev. XXII, 27), and a time for those who offer (Num. VI, 10); a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 22:27
- 2. to come before court; to sue, complain. Gen. R. s. 96 (ref. to ויקרבו, Gen. XLVII, 29) כאדם … ק׳ על וכ׳ as one says, that man has brought suit against his neighbor, v. קָבַל II; Yalk. ib. 156 קבל (corr. acc.). e.g. Genesis 47:29
- 1. same, same, to come near. Ex. R. s. 20, beg. לא קי׳ אצל וכ׳ he had not come near Sarah.—Esp. to approach; to pray, intercede, mediate, conciliate. Y. Ber. IV, 8ᵇ top זה שעובר … בא וקָרֵב עשה קרבנינו וכ׳ we do not say to him who is to pass before the ark (v. תֵּיבָה), ‘come and pray’, but, ‘come, draw near’, (which means) ‘do our offerings’, ‘satisfy our needs’ &c.
- 2. to bring near; to befriend, attract, invite. B. Kam. 24ᵃ ק׳ נגיחותיו if the ox did his gorings in near intervals (of less than three days). Eduy. VIII, 7 אין אליהו … לרחק ולְקָרֵב … המְקוֹרָבִין בזרוע וכ׳ Elijah shall come not to decide between clean and unclean, nor to expel (declare genealogically degraded) and to receive (reinstate), but to expel those who have been received by force, and to reinstate those who have been expelled by force. Ib. משפחת … וקֵרְבָהּ בן וכ׳ there was a family … which Ben-Zion expelled by force, and another which they received by force (Bab. ed. וקֵרְבוּהָ בני וב׳; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 40); Tosef. ib. III, 4; Kidd. 71ᵃ. Eduy. l. c. לא לרחק ולא לקרב וכ׳ neither to expel nor to reinstate, but to make peace &c. Sabb. 31ᵃ קֵירְבָנוּ תחת וכ׳, v. עִנְוְתָנוּת. Ib. שקֵרַבְתַּנִי וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. שהקרבתני) thou hast brought us near &c. Tanḥ. Tsav 8 (ref. to Ps. LXV, 5) אשרי מי שבחרו … קֵרְבוֹ blessed he whom the Lord has chosen, although he did not bring him near; Num. R. s. 3 הקריבו. Ib. ק׳ את עצמו he brought himself near (to God, through his own deeds); ib. יתרו קרבו הקב"ה the Lord brought Jethro near (caused him to be converted); Yalk. Ex. 379; a. fr.—Sifré Num. 94 (expl. לזרא, Num. XI, 20, cmp. זָר) שתהיו מרחיקים … מְקָרְבִים אותו you will keep it at a distance (loathe it) more than you have been inviting (wishing for) it; Lev. R. s. 48.—Part. pass. מְקוֹרָב; pl. מְקוֹרָבִין, v. supra. e.g. Psalms 65:5
- 1. to bring near, receive. Y. Dem. II, 23ᵃ top מַקְרִיבִין לכנפים, v. כָּנָף. Num. R. l. c.; Sabb. l. c., v. supra; a. fr.
- 2. to offer, sacrifice. Men. XIII, 10 יַקְרִיבֶנָּה במקדש he must offer it in the Temple (of Jerusalem), ואם הִקְרִיבָהּ וכ׳ but if he offered it in the Temple of Ḥonyo (in Egypt). Zeb. 67ᵇ ותַקְרִיבֶנָּה למעלה and let her offer it on top, (v. supra Kal); Kinn. III, 6 ויַקְרִיבֶנָּה וכ׳ Mish. (Bab. ed. ויקרבנה, corr. acc.) and he (the priest) must offer it &c. Ber. 6ᵇ כאילו ה׳ תודה as if he had offered a thank-offering. Ib. 17ᵃ as long as the Temple stood אדם חוטא ומַקְרִיב וכ׳ a man sinned and brought a sacrifice; ואין מקריבין וכ׳ yet only its fat and its blood were offered; כאילו הִקְרַבְתִּיו לפניך וכ׳ as if I had offered it (my fat and blood) on the altar before thee; a. v. fr.
- to be offered. Y. Meg. I, 70ᶜ top ונִקְרְבוּ מהן וכ׳ and from their contributions was taken the wood for sacrifices; (Y. Taan. IV, 68ᵇ; Y. Shek. IV, beg. 47ᵈ וקרבו).
- 1. to be brought near, be received. Num. R. s. 3 יש נבחר ונדחה ונ׳ וכ׳ some are chosen and repelled (disgraced) and received again &c. Sifra Tsav, Milluïm ידע משה שנ׳ אהרן Moses learned that Aaron was received again (in grace); Yalk. Lev. 515; a. fr.
- 2. to be offered, sacrificed. Y. Taan. l. c. שלא יהא קרבן מִתְקָרֵב וכ׳ that none but their contributions should be offered first. Pirké d’R. El. ch. XXXI אותו האיל … ובא להִתְקָרֵב וכ׳ that ram … ran and came to offer himself as a sacrifice in place of Isaac &c.; Yalk. Gen. 101; a. e.
- 3. to claim relationship. Deut. R. s. 2 אם קרובו עני … פלוני מתקרב לי if a man’s relative is poor, he makes himself the main person and him subordinate, saying, this man claims relationship to me; Y. Ber. IX, 13ᵇ (in mutilated text) ההן פלן מתקרב לן.
קְרֵב
- 1. to be near, come near, touch. Targ. Num. XXVII, 1. Targ. Ex. XXXVI, 2. Targ. I Kings II, 1; a. fr.—Pesik. Zakhor, p. 24ᵇ קריב לגביה, v. בָּלַם II. Eduy. VIII, 4 דיִקְרַב במיתא he who touches a corpse; a. e.
- 2. to intercede, protect. Y. Dem. I, 22ᵃ בני קרתי קוֹרְבִין לי (not קרתיה) fellow-citizens, protect me!; בני דודי קורבין לי (not דידי) children of my friend (the Lord), protect you me!; Y. Taan. III, 66ᶜ top בני דילי וכ׳ (corr. acc.).
- 3. to complain, sue. Y. B. Bath. IX, beg. 16ᵈ אתון בנוי קַרְבוּן וכ׳ his sons came and complained before R. E. Ib. אתת וקְרֵיבָה וכ׳ she came and complained &c.
- 4. to bring near; to offer, v. infra.
- 1. to bring near; to offer. Targ. Gen. XLVIII, 9, sq. Ib. 13 (Y. ed. Vien. קְריב; h. text ויַּגֵּשׁ). Targ. Is. LVIII, 3 (h. text תִּנְגּשׁוֹּ!). Targ. O. Lev. I, 2 יְקָרֵיב (Y. יִקְרַב). Ib. 3 (Y. יַקְרִיב Af.). Ib. 14 (Y. also יַקְרִיב); a. fr.—Gitt. 56ᵃ סבור רבנן לקָרוּבֵיה the rabbis were of the opinion that it should be offered. Y. Ber. IX, 13ᵈ top הוה … אתי למִיקָרְבָה וכ׳ (or למִיקְרְבָה) when a man came to offer, to the idol, an ox &c. Y. Snh. X, 29ᵇ מְקָרְבָא לגיחזי to bring Gehazi near (befriend him again). Num. R. s. 3 אלהכון מאן הוא בעי מְקָרֵיב does your God bring near him (grace) whomever he chooses to? B. Bath. 168ᵃ אפי׳ צורבא … לְקָרוּבֵיה even in the case of a young scholar whom it may be supposed his intended father-in-law likes to bring into his family; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְקָרַב; f. מְקָרְבָא, מְקָרְבָה; pl. מְקָרְבִין; מְקָרְבָן near, friendly. Sabb. 104ᵃ מ"ט שקר ק׳ מיליה אמת וכ׳ why are the letters of שקר (falsehood) near together (in the order of the alphabet), and those of אמת (truth) far apart? Snh. 29ᵃ מק׳ דעתיה he is friendly, v. רְחַק.—3) to intercede, lead in prayer. Midr. Till. to Ps. XIX חזיוה לחזנא דקָרֵיב וכ׳ they noticed that the officer of the synagogue led in prayer and said &c.
- to bring near; to offer. Targ. Mal. II, 12; a. fr.—Gitt. l. c. אי מַקְרְבִין ליה (or מְקָרְבִין Pa.), v. קָרְבַּן. Ḥag. 8ᵇ האי דלא אַקְרְבִינְהוּ וכ׳ the reason why they did not offer them was &c.; a. fr.—Yeb. 39ᵇ איקרבת ית וכ׳ (read: אַקְרִיבַת) she brought before us (the court) such and such a person &c.
- 1. to approach, come near. Targ. Y. Deut. XX, 3; O. ib. ed. Berl. (oth. ed. קריבין). Ib. XXV, 9; a. fr.—Keth. 56ᵃ משום אִיקָּרוּבֵי דעתא הוא והא אִיקָּרְבָא דעתא (when a man promises his bride an additional jointure,) it is in order that an attachment be formed; well, now, the attachment has been formed (and we have a right to assume that he wanted his bride to get that addition, even if he should die before the wedding).
- 2. to claim relationship, v. preced.
קֶרֶב
- preced.)
- 1. inside, intestine.—Du. קְרָבַיִם, קְרָבַיִים; constr. קִרְבֵּי, קִירְ׳. Num. R. s. 7 (ref. to Num. XIV, 11 בקרבו) אטר אעשה עמו … בקרבו כמה … עשיתי בקִרְבֵּיהֶן וכ׳ it does not read, ‘which I do with them’, but ‘which I do within them’:… how many signs and wonders have I done in their intestines (that the manna was entirely resorbed in their bowels) &c. (with ref. to קֶרֶב Lev. VIII, 21). Tam. IV, 2. Ḥull. 16ᵇ קירבי דגים entrails of fish. Y. Sabb. II, 4ᵈ ק׳ דגים כל זמן וכ׳ the fat of fish entrails (used as oil) has no bad odor as long as it burns. B. Mets. 60ᵇ, v. נָפַח; a. fr.—Ned. 54ᵇ ק׳ לאו בשר וכ׳ entrails are no meat and he who eats them is no man; Y. ib. VII, beg. 40ᵇ קרבייא (ch. form). Ber. 10ᵃ; a. fr. e.g. Numbers 14:11
- 2. innermost; בְּקֶרֶב within. Pesik. R. s. 13 בְּקִרְבַּנוּ, v. רָחַשׁ; a. e.
קָרֵב ²
- m., v. קָרֵיב
קְרָב
- preced. wds.) hostile contact, attack, war. Y. Sot. VIII, 21ᶜ top רומי לק׳ the Roman (Latin) language is adapted for military affairs; Y. Meg. I, 71ᵇ bot.; Esth. R. to I, 22. Sabb. 59ᵃ בשעה שבורח מן הק׳ וכ׳ when he flees from the battle, he puts it on &c.; a. e.
קְרָב ²
- Targ. II Sam. XXI, 15. Targ. Ps. XXVII, 3. Ib. XXXV, 1; a. fr.—Ib. קְרַבְתִּי, v. קְרָבוּ.—Tosef. Sot. XIII, 5, v. נְגַח; Y. ib. IX, 24ᵇ; Bab. ib. 33ᵃ. Lev. R. s. 22 דעבד ק׳ עם וכ׳ who wages war with a king &c. Gitt. 56ᵃ ניפוק … ק׳ בהדייהו let us go out and offer them (the Romans) battle; a. fr.—Pl. קְרָבִין, קְרָבַיָּא. Targ. Num. XXI, 14. Targ. I Chr. XXVIII, 3; a. e.
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Forms in the corpus
The 204 distinct written forms H7126 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 144 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7126, 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.
Derived from this word
- קרב qᵉrêb H7127 to approach
- קרב qᵉrâb H7128 battle
- קרב qereb H7130 midst
- קרב qârêb H7131 near
- קרבה qᵉrâbâh H7132 approach
- קרבן qorbân H7133 offering
- קרוב qârôwb H7138 near
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 256 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 263 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 12:11
- Exodus 3:5
- Leviticus 1:2
- Numbers 1:51
- Deuteronomy 1:17
- Joshua 3:4
- Judges 3:17
- 1 Samuel 10:20
- 2 Samuel 15:5
- 1 Kings 2:1
- 2 Kings 16:12
- 1 Chronicles 16:1
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