קֶבֶר qever

Hebrew word for “grave” · Strong’s H6913 · used 67 times in 62 verses

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Meaning

grave, sepulchre, tomb

How it is translated

Glosses given for qever in context, with how often each is used:

• graves 23
• grave 19
• tomb 9
• burial site 8
• tombs 3
• burial sites 1
• own grave 1
• own graves 1
• among the graves 1
• like a grave 1

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 23 (4), Ezekiel 32 (4), 1 Kings 13 (3), 2 Kings 23 (3), Genesis 50 (2), Numbers 19 (2), 2 Chronicles 34 (2), Nehemiah 2 (2), Psalms 88 (2), Ezekiel 37 (2)

Forms

• קבר 16
• בקבר 11
• קברי 4
• קברו 3
• הקברים 3
• בקברות 3
• קברים 2
• קברתיך 2
• קברות 2
• קברותיכם 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with qever more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• קָבַר qavar “to bury” 21
• אָב av “father” 15
• מוּת mut “to die” 13
• עֶצֶם etsem “bone” 7
• חָלָל chalal “slain” 6
• אֲחֻזָּה achuzzah “possession” 5
• חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 7
• עִיר ir “city” 9
• מְעָרָה mearah “cave” 4
• מַכְפֵּלָה makhpelah “Machpelah” 3
• חִתִּית chittit “terror” 3
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 6

Key verses

The verses using qever that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 23:4 — I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
• Exodus 14:11 — And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to…
• 2 Samuel 17:23 — And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in…
• 2 Kings 23:6 — And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to…
• 2 Chronicles 34:4 — And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and…
• Nehemiah 2:3 — And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and…
• Job 5:26 — Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
• Psalms 5:9 — For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
• Isaiah 14:19 — But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the…
• Isaiah 53:9 — And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
• Isaiah 65:4 — Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
• Nahum 1:14 — And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.