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Lexicon :: Strong's H6913 - qeḇer

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קֶבֶר
Transliteration
qeḇer
Pronunciation
keh'-ber
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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TWOT Reference: 1984a

Strong’s Definitions

קֶבֶר qeber, keh'-ber; or (feminine) קִבְרָה qibrâh; from H6912; a sepulchre:—burying place, grave, sepulchre.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 67x

The KJV translates Strong's H6913 in the following manner: grave (35x), sepulchre (25x), buryingplace (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 67x
The KJV translates Strong's H6913 in the following manner: grave (35x), sepulchre (25x), buryingplace (6x).

  1. grave, sepulchre, tomb

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קֶבֶר qeber, keh'-ber; or (feminine) קִבְרָה qibrâh; from H6912; a sepulchre:—burying place, grave, sepulchre.
STRONGS H6913: Abbreviations
קֶ֫בֶר 67 noun masculine 1 Kings 13:31 grave, sepulchre; — absolute ק׳ Genesis 23:4 +, קָ֑בֶר 1 Kings 14:13 +; construct קֶבֶר Judges 8:32 +; suffix קִבְרִי Genesis 50:5, etc.; plural קְבָרִים Exodus 14:11 +, construct קִבְדֵי Jeremiah 26:23 +, suffix קִבְרֵיהֶם Jeremiah 8:1; also קְבָרוֺת Job 21:32, construct קִבְרוֺת Nehemiah 2:3 +, suffix קִבְרֹתָיו Exodus 32:23; 2 Chronicles 16:14, etc.; — grave, sepulchre, Judges 8:32; 2 Samuel 2:32; 1 Kings 13:22 +; אֲחֻזַּת ק׳ Genesis 23:4; Genesis 23:9; Genesis 23:30; Genesis 49:30; Genesis 50:13; hewn out (חָצַב) Isaiah 22:16 (twice in verse); מִכֶּטֶן לַקֶּבֶר אוּבָ֑ל Job 10:19; figurative ק׳ וַתְּהִילִֿי אִמִּ׳ Jeremiah 20:17; שֹׁכְבֵי ק׳ Psalm 88:6 the slain lying in grave; הַיּשְׁבִים כַּקְּבָרִים Isaiah 65:4 they who sit in the tombs (occult rite, probably in necromancy, etc., compare Che and RSSemitic I. 180 ff.; 2nd ed. 197 ff.); קֶבֶר בְּנֵי הָעָם 2 Kings 23:6 i.e. burial-place of common people, so קִבְרֵי בְּנֵי הָעָם Jeremiah 26:23; plural intensive Job 17:1, also of stately (royal) sepulchre 2 Kings 22:20= 2 Chronicles 34:28; Nehemiah 3:16; 2 Chronicles 16:14; compare 2 Chronicles 35:24; Job 21:32; conceived as in lower world Ezekiel 32:22, 23, 25, 26, || אֲבַדּוֺן Psalm 88:12; Psalm 49:12 read קְבָרִים for || קִרְבָּם Vrss and most; פָּתוּחַ ק׳ simile of quiver Jeremiah 5:16; figurative גְּרֹנָם פ׳ ק׳ Psalm 5:10; of exile Ezekiel 37:12 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 37:13 (twice in verse).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

23:4; 23:4; 23:9; 49:30; 50:5; 50:13

Exodus

14:11; 32:23

Judges

8:32; 8:32

2 Samuel

2:32

1 Kings

13:22; 13:31; 14:13

2 Kings

22:20; 23:6

2 Chronicles

16:14; 16:14; 34:28; 35:24

Nehemiah

2:3; 3:16

Job

10:19; 17:1; 21:32; 21:32

Psalms

5:10; 49:12; 88:6; 88:12

Isaiah

22:16; 65:4

Jeremiah

5:16; 8:1; 20:17; 26:23; 26:23

Ezekiel

32:22; 32:23; 32:25; 32:26; 37:12; 37:13

H6913

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6913 matches the Hebrew קֶבֶר (qeḇer),
which occurs 67 times in 62 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 23:4–Isa 65:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - “I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - “Sir, listen to us. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:20 - So the field and the cave in it were deeded to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - ‘My father made me swear an oath and said, “I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11 - They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - “Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:32 - Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 - Then his brothers and his father’s whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led[fn] Israel twenty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:32 - They took Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb at Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night and arrived at Hebron by daybreak.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:32 - They buried Abner in Hebron, and the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb. All the people wept also.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12 - So David gave an order to his men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung the bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-Bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb at Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:23 - When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his house in order and then hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:37 - Let your servant return, that I may die in my own town near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever you wish.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:14 - They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish, at Zela in Benjamin, and did everything the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer in behalf of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:22 - You came back and ate bread and drank water in the place where he told you not to eat or drink. Therefore your body will not be buried in the tomb of your ancestors.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:30 - Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they mourned over him and said, “Alas, my brother!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:31 - After burying him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:13 - All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will be buried, because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the LORD, the God of Israel, has found anything good.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:21 - Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:20 - Therefore I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place.’ ” So they took her answer back to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17 - The king asked, “What is that tombstone I see?” The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:14 - They buried him in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier covered with spices and various blended perfumes, and they made a huge fire in his honor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:20 - Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He passed away, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:25 - When the Arameans withdrew, they left Joash severely wounded. His officials conspired against him for murdering the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him in his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:27 - Ahaz rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son succeeded him as king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:33 - Hezekiah rested with his ancestors and was buried on the hill where the tombs of David’s descendants are. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem honored him when he died. And Manasseh his son succeeded him as king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them, and smashed the Asherah poles and the idols. These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:28 - Now I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place and on those who live here.’ ” So they took her answer back to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 - So they took him out of his chariot, put him in his other chariot and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - but I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:5 - and I answered the king, “If it pleases the king and if your servant has found favor in his sight, let him send me to the city in Judah where my ancestors are buried so that I can rebuild it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:16 - Beyond him, Nehemiah son of Azbuk, ruler of a half-district of Beth Zur, made repairs up to a point opposite the tombs[fn] of David, as far as the artificial pool and the House of the Heroes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:22 - who are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:26 - You will come to the grave in full vigor, like sheaves gathered in season.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:19 - If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:1 - My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:32 - They are carried to the grave, and watch is kept over their tombs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:9 - Not a word from their mouth can be trusted; their heart is filled with malice. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they tell lies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:5 - I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:11 - Is your love declared in the grave, your faithfulness in Destruction[fn]?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:19 - But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:16 - What are you doing here and who gave you permission to cut out a grave for yourself here, hewing your grave on the height and chiseling your resting place in the rock?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:9 - He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:4 - who sit among the graves and spend their nights keeping secret vigil; who eat the flesh of pigs, and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;

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