כָּלֵבKâlêb

proper name, masculine: the one of the spies who (with Joshua) reported well of Canaan (Numbers 32:12; Joshua 14:6; Joshua 14:14; Joshua 15:17; Judges 1:13)

Pronunciation: kaw-labe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3612

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 35 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 13:6 Judah Caleb son of Jephunneh
  • Numbers 13:30 But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!”
  • Numbers 14:6 Two of the men who had explored the land, Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, tore their clothing.
  • Numbers 14:24 But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants will possess their full share of that land.
  • Numbers 14:30 You will not enter and occupy the land I swore to give you. The only exceptions will be Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
  • Numbers 14:38 Of the twelve who had explored the land, only Joshua and Caleb remained alive.
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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).