Distance
כִּבְרָהStrong’s H3530kivrah (kiv-rah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kivrah is the Hebrew word usually translated “distance of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.”
Meaning
- Distance (undetermined length)
How it's translated
- a distance of 2
- distance of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- 2 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 48:7And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
- 2 Kings 5:19And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
Hebrew dictionary
כִּבְרָה kivrah · distance
distance (undetermined length)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “distance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISTANCE, noun
[Latin, to stand apart; to stand.]
- An interval or space between two objects; the length of the shortest line which intervenes between two things that are separate; as a great or small distance distance may be aline, an inch, a mile, or any indefinite length; as the distance between the sun and Saturn.
- Preceded by at, remoteness of place.
- Preceded by thy, his, your, her, their, a suitable space, or such remoteness as is common or becoming; as, let him keep his distance; keep your distance [See No. 8.]
- A space marked on the course where horses run.
All definitions and other forms of “distance”
- Space of time; any indefinite length of time, past or future, intervening between two periods or events; as the distance of an hour, of a year, of an age.
- Ideal space or separation.
- Contrariety; opposition.
- The remoteness which respect requires; hence, respect.
- Reserve; coldness; alienation of heart.
- Remoteness in succession or relation; as the distance between a descendant and his ancestor.
- In music, the interval between two notes; as the distance of a fourth or seventh.
DISTANCE, verb transitive
- To place remote; to throw off from the view.
- To leave behind in a race;; to win the race by a great superiority.
- To leave at a great distance behind.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.