קֶבֶרqeber

grave, sepulchre (1 Kings 13:31; Genesis 23:4; 1 Kings 14:13; Judges 8:32; Genesis 50:5)

Pronunciation: keh'-ber · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6913

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 67 times in the Bible.

  • 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 23:9 to let me buy his cave at Machpelah, down at the end of his field. I will pay the full price in the presence of witnesses, so I will have a permanent burial place for my family.”
  • Genesis 23:20 So the field and the cave were transferred from the Hittites to Abraham for use as a permanent burial place.
  • Genesis 49:30 This is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a permanent burial site.
  • Genesis 50:5 Tell him that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, ‘Listen, I am about to die. Take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself.’ So please allow me to go and bury my father. After his burial, I will return without delay.”
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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).