קָבַרqâbar

bury

Pronunciation: kaw-bar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6912

Meanings

Qal: bury (Genesis 23:19; Genesis 47:30; Deuteronomy 34:6)

Niph`al: be buried (Jeremiah 22:19; Genesis 15:15; Genesis 8:2)

Pi`el: bury, (in masses), as intensive noun, of office, burier (Hosea 9:6; 1 Kings 11:15; Numbers 33:4)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 133 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 15:15 (As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.)
  • Genesis 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.”
  • Genesis 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.”
  • Genesis 23:8 and said, “Since you are willing to help me in this way, be so kind as to ask Ephron son of Zohar
  • Genesis 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.”
  • Genesis 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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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).