כָּבָה
kâbâh · kaw-baw'
to expire or (causatively) to extinguish (fire, light, anger)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to expire or (causatively) to extinguish (fire, light, anger)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: go (put) out, quench.
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › the house, what is within › to reveal, behold
The open hand that covers of the house, what is within that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כָּבָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
24 occurrences · 24 OT · 0 NT · 20 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and shall not be quenched3 · 13%
- that none can quench2 · 8%
- in it; it shall not be put out1 · 4%
- it shall never go out1 · 4%
- went out1 · 4%
- also: and so they shall quench1 · 4%
- that thou quench1 · 4%
- and put out1 · 4%
- goeth out1 · 4%
- goeth not out1 · 4%
- quench1 · 4%
- and none shall quench1 · 4%
- it shall not be quenched1 · 4%
- shall he not quench1 · 4%
- they are quenched1 · 4%
- be quenched1 · 4%
- and it shall not be quenched1 · 4%
- shall not be quenched1 · 4%
- it: it shall not be quenched1 · 4%
- and when i shall put thee out1 · 4%
- it, and there be none to quench1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.