חֶבֶרCheber
Cheber, the name of a Kenite and of three Israelites
Pronunciation: kheh'-ber · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2268
Meanings
1. the Kenite, husband of Deborah (Judges 4:11; Judges 4:17; Judges 4:21)
2. a man of Asher (Genesis 46:17; 1 Chronicles 7:31; 1 Chronicles 7:32)
3. name in Judah (1 Chronicles 4:18)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 46:17 The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Their sister was Serah. Beriah’s sons were Heber and Malkiel.
- Numbers 26:45 These were the subclans descended from the Beriites: The Heberites, named after their ancestor Heber. The Malkielites, named after their ancestor Malkiel.
- Judges 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite, a descendant of Moses’ brother-in-law Hobab, had moved away from the other members of his tribe and pitched his tent by the oak of Zaanannim near Kedesh.
- Judges 4:17 Meanwhile, Sisera ran to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because Heber’s family was on friendly terms with King Jabin of Hazor.
- Judges 4:21 But when Sisera fell asleep from exhaustion, Jael quietly crept up to him with a hammer and tent peg in her hand. Then she drove the tent peg through his temple and into the ground, and so he died.
- Judges 5:24 “Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite. May she be blessed above all women who live in tents.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).