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.”
See every passage
- Genesis 23:4, 23:6, 23:9, 23:20, 49:30, 50:5, 50:13
- Exodus 14:11
- Numbers 19:16, 19:18
- Judges 8:32, 16:31
- 2 Samuel 2:32, 3:32, 4:12, 17:23, 19:37, 21:14
- 1 Kings 13:22, 13:30, 13:31, 14:13
- 2 Kings 13:21, 22:20, 23:6, 23:16, 23:17
- 2 Chronicles 16:14, 21:20, 24:25, 28:27, 32:33, 34:4, 34:28, 35:24
- Nehemiah 2:3, 2:5, 3:16
- Job 3:22, 5:26, 10:19, 17:1, 21:32
- Psalms 5:9, 88:5, 88:11
- Isaiah 14:19, 22:16, 53:9, 65:4
- Jeremiah 5:16, 8:1, 20:17, 26:23
- Ezekiel 32:22, 32:23, 32:25, 32:26, 37:12, 37:13, 39:11
- Nahum 1:14
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).