Tomb
קְבֻרָהStrong’s H6900qevurah (qe-vu-rah)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qevurah is the Hebrew word usually translated “grave his”, “grave its” and “grave her”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.”
Meaning
- Grave, burial, burial sitegrave · burial
How it's translated
- in grave his 2
- grave its 2
- grave her 1
- grave of 1
- in grave their 1
- burial place his 1
- tomb of 1
- in own grave his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 3
- Genesis 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 47:30But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
- Deuteronomy 34:6And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
- 1 Samuel 10:2When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
- 2 Kings 9:28And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
- 2 Kings 21:26And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
- 2 Kings 23:30And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
Hebrew dictionary
קְבֻרָה qevurah · tomb
1) grave, burial, burial site 1a) grave 1b) burial
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tomb” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TOMB, noun
toom. [Latin tumulus, a heap or hillock; tumeo, to swell.]
- A grave; a pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
- A house or vault formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof for the reception of the dead.
- A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead.
All definitions and other forms of “tomb”
TOMB, verb transitive
To bury; to inter. [See Entomb.]
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.