קֶבֶר
qeber · keh'-ber
a sepulchre
Lexicon
Derivation: or (feminine) קִבְרָה; from H6912 (קָבַר);
a sepulchre
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: burying place, grave, sepulchre.
Letters
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › the house, what is within › the head, the highest
What comes behind, the returning cycle of the house, what is within of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קֶבֶר 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
67 occurrences · 67 OT · 0 NT · 51 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of a buryingplace5 · 12%
- in the sepulchre3 · 7%
- to the grave3 · 7%
- or a grave2 · 5%
- the graves2 · 5%
- to thy grave2 · 5%
- sepulchres2 · 5%
- sepulchre2 · 5%
- in the grave2 · 5%
- a sepulchre2 · 5%
- her graves2 · 5%
- your graves2 · 5%
- out of your graves2 · 5%
- of our sepulchres1 · 2%
- from thee his sepulchre1 · 2%
- in my grave1 · 2%
- because there were no graves1 · 2%
- in the buryingplace1 · 2%
- him in the sepulchre1 · 2%
- at the grave1 · 2%
- it in the sepulchre1 · 2%
- and be buried by the grave1 · 2%
- unto the sepulchre1 · 2%
- in his own grave1 · 2%
- me in the sepulchre1 · 2%
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.