Kab
קַבStrong’s H6894qav
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qav is the Hebrew word usually translated “kab”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.”
Meaning
- A dry measure-cab, kababout 1.5 litres, 1/6 of a seah, or 1/18 of an ephah
How it's translated
- the kab 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
קַב qav · kab
1) a dry measure-cab, kab 1a) about 1.5 litres, 1/6 of a seah, or 1/18 of an ephah
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.