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Lexicon :: Strong's H6912 - qāḇar

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קָבַר
Transliteration
qāḇar
Pronunciation
kaw-bar'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1984

Strong’s Definitions

קָבַר qâbar, kaw-bar'; a primitive root; to inter:—× in any wise, bury(-ier).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 133x

The KJV translates Strong's H6912 in the following manner: bury (131x), buriers (1x), in any wise (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 133x
The KJV translates Strong's H6912 in the following manner: bury (131x), buriers (1x), in any wise (1x).

  1. to bury

    1. (Qal) to bury

    2. (Niphal) to be buried

    3. (Piel) to bury, bury (in masses)

    4. (Pual) to be buried

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קָבַר qâbar, kaw-bar'; a primitive root; to inter:—× in any wise, bury(-ier).
STRONGS H6912: Abbreviations
קָבַר 132 verb bury (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician קבר, bury, קבר tomb; Arabic bdb086801, Assyrian ḳibîru, Aramaic קְבַר, bdb086802, Nabataean קבר, all bury; Palmyrene Nabataean קברא tomb, so Sabean קבר HomChrest. 126, Lihyanian קבר bury, DHMEpigr. Denkm. No, 35, 2, 3, compare מקבר(הם) burial-place CISiv, No, 20, 1.2, 4); —
Qal86 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular ק׳ Genesis 23:19; 2nd person masculine singular Sf. consecutive וּקְבַרְתַּנְי Genesis 47:30, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular וַיִּקְבֹּד Deuteronomy 34:6; 2 Kings 21:26, etc.; Imperative קְבֹר Genesis 23:6 +, etc.; Infinitive absolute קָבוֺר Deuteronomy 21:23; construct לִקְכּוֺר Jeremiah 19:11 +, etc.; Participle active קֹבֵר 2 Kings 9:10 +, etc.; pass. קָבוּר 1 Kings 13:31, plural קְבֻרִים Ecclesiastes 8:10 bury, acc. person, bones, etc., usually with ב location, 2 Samuel 2:32; 1 Kings 13:31 (twice in verse); Genesis 23:6; Joshua 24:30, 32 (twice in verse); Judges 2:9 + 33 times; with בֵּיתוֺ location 2 Chronicles 33:20 (בְּגַןבֵּֿיתוֺ || 2 Kings 21:18, also בְּבֵיתוֺ 1 Samuel 25:1; 1 Kings 2:34); with שָׁם Numbers 11:34, תַּחַת 1 Samuel 31:13 = 1 Chronicles 10:12; pregnantly with אֶל location Genesis 23:19; Genesis 25:9; Ezekiel 39:15; אֶלאֲֿבֹתָ֑י Genesis 49:29; compare עִםאֲֿבוֺתָיו 2 Kings 12:22; 2 Kings 15:7; 2 Chronicles 25:28; 26:23 (see also Niph., and תָּבוֺא אֶלֿ אֲבֹתֶיךָ Genesis 15:15); with שָׁ֫תָּה Genesis 23:13; Genesis 49:31 (3 times in verse); Genesis 50:5; with accusative of person alone 2 Samuel 2:4, 5 + 22 times; + מִלְּפָנַי Genesis 23:4, 8; passive Ecclesiastes 8:10; accusative omitted 2 Kings 9:10 + 3 times + (with ב) 2 Samuel 4:12.
Niph.30 Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִקָּבֵר Jeremiah 22:19, etc.; — be buried Genesis 15:15Jer Genesis 8:2; Genesis 16:4, 5; Genesis 25:33 (+ אסף), so read perhaps Ezekiel 29:5 for תִּקָּבֵץ (+ id.); קְבֻרַת חֲמוֺר יִקּ׳ Jeremiah 22:19; usually with ב location Genesis 35:19; Judges 8:32 + 6 times Judges; 2 Samuel 17:23; 1 Kings 2:10, 34 + 16 times Kings Chronicles (+ עִםאֲֿבוֺתָיו 1 Kings 14:31; 1 Kings 15:24 + 6 times; עִםמַֿלְכֵי יִשְׂר׳ 2 Kings 13:13; 2 Kings 14:16); with שָׁם Numbers 20:1 + 3 times; with תַּחַת, מִתַּחַת Genesis 35:8.
† Pi. bury (in masses), with accusative: Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular suffix תְּקַכְּרֵם Hosea 9:6; Infinitive construct לְקַבֵּר 1 Kings 11:15; Participle plural מְקַכְּרִים Numbers 33:4; Ezekiel 39:14; as intensive noun, of office, burier, singular מְקַכֵּר Jeremiah 14:16, plural הַמּ׳ Ezekiel 39:15.
† Pu. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שָׁ֫מָּה קֻבַּר אַבְרָהָם Genesis 25:10.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:2; 15:15; 15:15; 16:4; 16:5; 23:4; 23:6; 23:6; 23:8; 23:13; 23:19; 23:19; 25:9; 25:10; 25:33; 35:8; 35:19; 47:30; 49:29; 49:31; 50:5

Numbers

11:34; 20:1; 33:4

Deuteronomy

21:23; 34:6

Joshua

24:30; 24:32

Judges

2:9; 8:32

1 Samuel

25:1; 31:13

2 Samuel

2:4; 2:5; 2:32; 4:12; 17:23

1 Kings

2:10; 2:34; 2:34; 11:15; 13:31; 13:31; 14:31; 15:24

2 Kings

9:10; 9:10; 13:13; 14:16; 15:7; 21:18; 21:26

1 Chronicles

10:12

2 Chronicles

25:28; 26:23; 33:20

Ecclesiastes

8:10; 8:10

Jeremiah

14:16; 19:11; 22:19; 22:19

Ezekiel

29:5; 39:14; 39:15; 39:15

Hosea

9:6

H6912

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6912 matches the Hebrew קָבַר (qāḇar),
which occurs 133 times in 122 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 15:15–2Sa 4:12)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:15 - (As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - “Here I am, a stranger and a foreigner among you. Please sell me a piece of land so I can give my wife a proper burial.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - “Listen, my lord, you are an honored prince among us. Choose the finest of our tombs and bury her there. No one here will refuse to help you in this way.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:8 - and said, “Since you are willing to help me in this way, be so kind as to ask Ephron son of Zohar

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:11 - “No, my lord,” he said to Abraham, “please listen to me. I will give you the field and the cave. Here in the presence of my people, I give it to you. Go and bury your dead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13 - and he replied to Ephron as everyone listened. “No, listen to me. I will buy it from you. Let me pay the full price for the field so I can bury my dead there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:15 - “My lord, please listen to me. The land is worth 400 pieces[fn] of silver, but what is that between friends? Go ahead and bury your dead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:19 - Then Abraham buried his wife, Sarah, there in Canaan, in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre (also called Hebron).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:9 - His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:10 - This was the field Abraham had purchased from the Hittites and where he had buried his wife Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:8 - Soon after this, Rebekah’s old nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried beneath the oak tree in the valley below Bethel. Ever since, the tree has been called Allon-bacuth (which means “oak of weeping”).

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:19 - So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:29 - Then he breathed his last and died at a ripe old age, joining his ancestors in death. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:29 - As the time of his death drew near, Jacob[fn] called for his son Joseph and said to him, “Please do me this favor. Put your hand under my thigh and swear that you will treat me with unfailing love by honoring this last request: Do not bury me in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:30 - When I die, please take my body out of Egypt and bury me with my ancestors.”
So Joseph promised, “I will do as you ask.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - “Long ago, as I was returning from Paddan-aram, Rachel died in the land of Canaan. We were still on the way, some distance from Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). So with great sorrow I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:29 - Then Jacob instructed them, “Soon I will die and join my ancestors. Bury me with my father and grandfather in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:31 - There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried. There Isaac and his wife, Rebekah, are buried. And there I buried Leah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - Tell him that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, ‘Listen, I am about to die. Take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself.’ So please allow me to go and bury my father. After his burial, I will return without delay.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:6 - Pharaoh agreed to Joseph’s request. “Go and bury your father, as he made you promise,” he said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:7 - So Joseph went up to bury his father. He was accompanied by all of Pharaoh’s officials, all the senior members of Pharaoh’s household, and all the senior officers of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:14 - After burying Jacob, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to his father’s burial.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:34 - So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah (which means “graves of gluttony”) because there they buried the people who had craved meat from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:1 - In the first month of the year,[fn] the whole community of Israel arrived in the wilderness of Zin and camped at Kadesh. While they were there, Miriam died and was buried.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:4 - Meanwhile, the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn sons, whom the LORD had killed the night before. The LORD had defeated the gods of Egypt that night with great acts of judgment!

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:6 - (The people of Israel set out from the wells of the people of Jaakan[fn] and traveled to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried. His son Eleazar ministered as high priest in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - the body must not remain hanging from the tree overnight. You must bury the body that same day, for anyone who is hung[fn] is cursed in the sight of God. In this way, you will prevent the defilement of the land the LORD your God is giving you as your special possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:6 - The LORD buried him[fn] in a valley near Beth-peor in Moab, but to this day no one knows the exact place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - They buried him in the land he had been allocated, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 - The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought along with them when they left Egypt, were buried at Shechem, in the parcel of ground Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor for 100 pieces of silver.[fn] This land was located in the territory allotted to the descendants of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:33 - Eleazar son of Aaron also died. He was buried in the hill country of Ephraim, in the town of Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:9 - They buried him in the land he had been allocated, at Timnath-serah[fn] in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:32 - Gideon died when he was very old, and he was buried in the grave of his father, Joash, at Ophrah in the land of the clan of Abiezer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:2 - He judged Israel for twenty-three years. When he died, he was buried in Shamir.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:5 - When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:7 - Jephthah judged Israel for six years. When he died, he was buried in one of the towns of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:10 - When he died, he was buried at Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:12 - When he died, he was buried at Aijalon in Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:15 - When he died, he was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 - Later his brothers and other relatives went down to get his body. They took him back home and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol, where his father, Manoah, was buried. Samson had judged Israel for twenty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:17 - Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:1 - Now Samuel died, and all Israel gathered for his funeral. They buried him at his house in Ramah. Then David moved down to the wilderness of Maon.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:3 - Meanwhile, Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him. He was buried in Ramah, his hometown. And Saul had banned from the land of Israel all mediums and those who consult the spirits of the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:13 - Then they took their bones and buried them beneath the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:4 - Then the men of Judah came to David and anointed him king over the people of Judah.
When David heard that the men of Jabesh-gilead had buried Saul,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:5 - he sent them this message: “May the LORD bless you for being so loyal to your master Saul and giving him a decent burial.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:32 - Joab and his men took Asahel’s body to Bethlehem and buried him there in his father’s tomb. Then they traveled all night and reached Hebron at daybreak.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:32 - They buried Abner in Hebron, and the king and all the people wept at his graveside.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12 - So David ordered his young men to kill them, and they did. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies beside the pool in Hebron. Then they took Ishbosheth’s head and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.

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