qaval (to receive)

Meaning

To take, receive, be before(Piel) · (Hiphil)

How it's translated

opposite 2
and they received 2
will we accept 2
and he received them 1
take 1
and they took 1
he accepted 1
and he accepted 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Esther 3
Exodus 2
1 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 2
Ezra 1
Job 1

7 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Exodus 36:12Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.
1 Chronicles 12:18Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
1 Chronicles 21:11So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
2 Chronicles 29:16And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 29:22So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
Ezra 8:30So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.

All 12 verses, by book

Exodus 2: 26:5 36:12
1 Chronicles 2: 12:18 21:11
2 Chronicles 2: 29:16 29:22
Ezra 1: 8:30
Esther 3: 4:4 9:23 9:27
Job 1: 2:10
Proverbs 1: 19:20

Hebrew dictionary

קָבַל qaval · to receive

1) to take, receive, be before 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to take, choose, receive 1a2) to accept 1a3) to accept, assume 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to show oppositeness 1b2) to correspond, receive one to the other Aramaic equivalent: qe.val (קַבֵּל "to receive" H6902)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “receive” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

RECE'IVE, verb transitive

[Latin recipio; re and capio, to take.]

To take, as a thing offered or sent; to accept.
To take as due or as a reward.
To take or obtain from another in any manner, and either good or evil.“Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” Job 2:10
To take, as a thing communicated; as, to receive a wound by a shot; to receive a disease by contagion.

All definitions

To take or obtain intellectually; as, to receive an opinion or notion from others.
To embrace.“Receive with meekness the engrafted word” James 1:21
To allow; to hold; to retain; as a custom long received.
To admit.“Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory” Psalms 73:24
To welcome; to lodge and entertain; as a guest.“They kindled a fire and received us every one, because of the present rain and because of the cold” Acts 28:2
To admit into membership or fellowship.“Him that is weak in the faith, receive ye” Romans 14:1
To take in or on; to hold; to contain.
To be endowed with.“Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you” Acts 1:8
To take into a place or state.“After the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven” Mark 16:19
To take or have as something ascribed; as, to receive praise or blame. Revelation 4:11 Revelation 5:12
To bear with or suffer. 2 Corinthians 11:4
To believe in. John 1:11
To accept or admit officially or in an official character.
To take stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.