To bury
קָבַרStrong’s H6912qavar (qa-var)
Appears in 122 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qavar is the Hebrew word usually translated “was buried”, “buried” and “people buried”. It appears in 122 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.”
Meaning
- To bury(Qal) to bury · (Niphal) to be buried · (Piel) to bury, bury (in masses) · (Pual) to be buried
How it's translated
- and he was buried 27
- and they buried 12
- and people buried 11
- and people buried him 9
- bury 5
- to bury 5
- and they buried him 5
- they will be buried 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 23
- 2 Kings 19
- 1 Kings 16
- 2 Chronicles 16
- Judges 9
- Jeremiah 9
18 books in all.
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Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 23:4I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
- Genesis 23:6Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
- Genesis 23:8And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
- Genesis 23:11Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
- Genesis 23:13And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
- Genesis 23:15My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
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Hebrew dictionary
קָבַר qavar · to bury
1) to bury 1a) (Qal) to bury 1b) (Niphal) to be buried 1c) (Piel) to bury, bury (in masses) 1d) (Pual) to be buried
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bury” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BURY, noun
ber'ry. This word is a different orthography of burg, burh, borough. It signifies a house, habitation or castle, and is retained in many names of places, as in Shrewsbury, Danbury, Aldermanbury. The word is used by Grew, for burrow.
All definitions and other forms of “bury”
BURY, verb transitive
ber'ry.
- To deposit a deceased person in the grave; to inter a corpse; to entomb.
- To cover with earth, as seed sown.
- To hide; to conceal; to overwhelm; to cover with any thing; as, to bury any one in the ruins of a city.
- To withdraw or conceal in retirement; as, to bury one's self in a monastery or in solitude.
- To commit to the water; to deposit in the ocean; as dead bodies buried in the deep.
- To place one thing within another.
- To forget and forgive; to hide in oblivion; as, to bury an injury.
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.