Sieve
כְּבָרָהStrong’s H3531kevarah (ke-va-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kevarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “sieve”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.”
Meaning
- Sieve, sifter
How it's translated
- in sieve 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Amos 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
כְּבָרָה kevarah · sieve
sieve, sifter
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sieve” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIEVE, noun
siv. An utensil for separating flour from bran, or the fine part of any pulverized or fine substance from the coarse, by the hand; as a fine sieve; a coarse sieve It consists of a hoop with a hair bottom, and performs in the family the service of a bolter in a mill.
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.