Grave
קֶ֫בֶרStrong’s H6913qever (qe-ver)
Appears in 62 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qever is the Hebrew word usually translated “burial site”, “tomb of” and “grave”. It appears in 62 verses of the Old Testament.
“I 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.”
Meaning
- Grave, sepulchre, tomb
How it's translated
- a burial site 6
- in tomb of 6
- grave 4
- graves its 4
- a grave 3
- grave of 3
- grave your 3
- the graves 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 8
- Genesis 7
- Ezekiel 7
- 2 Samuel 6
- 2 Kings 5
- Job 5
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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 23:9That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
- Genesis 23:20And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
- Genesis 49:30In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
- Genesis 50:5My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
- Genesis 50:13For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
All 62 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫בֶר qever · grave
grave, sepulchre, tomb
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grave” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRAVE, verb transitive
preterit tense graved; participle passive graven or graved. [Gr. to write; originally all writing was graving; Eng. to scrape.]
- To carve or cut letters or figures on stone or other hard substance, with a chisel or edged tool; to engrave. [The latter word is now more generally used.]“Thou shalt take two onyx-stones and grave on them the names of the children of Israel” Exodus 28:9
- To carve; to form or shape by cutting with a chisel; as, to grave an image.“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image” Exodus 20:4
- To clean a ship's bottom by burning off filth, grass or other foreign matter, and paying it over with pitch.
- To entomb. [Unusual.]
All definitions and other forms of “grave”
GRAVE, verb intransitive
To carve; to write or delineate on hard substances; to practice engraving.
GRAVE, noun
[Latin scrobs.]
- The ditch, pit or excavated place in which a dead human body is deposited; a place for the corpse of a human being; a sepulcher.
- A tomb.
- Any place where the dead are reposited; a place of great slaughter or mortality.
- Graves, in the plural, sediment of tallow melted. [Not in use or local.]
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.