קְבוּרָהqᵉbûwrâh
grave, burial
Pronunciation: keb-oo-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6900
Meanings
1. grave (Genesis 35:20; Genesis 47:30; Deuteronomy 34:6)
2. burial (Isaiah 14:20; Ecclesiastes 6:3; Jeremiah 22:19)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 14 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 35:20 Jacob set up a stone monument over Rachel’s grave, and it can be seen there to this day.
- Genesis 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.”
- Deuteronomy 34:6 The Lord buried him in a valley near Beth-peor in Moab, but to this day no one knows the exact place.
- 1 Samuel 10:2 When you leave me today, you will see two men beside Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah, on the border of Benjamin. They will tell you that the donkeys have been found and that your father has stopped worrying about them and is now worried about you. He is asking, ‘Have you seen my son?’
- 2 Kings 9:28 His servants took him by chariot to Jerusalem, where they buried him with his ancestors in the City of David.
- 2 Kings 21:26 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. Then his son Josiah became the next king.
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).