Nearness
קִרְבָהStrong’s H7132qeravah (qe-ra-vah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qeravah is the Hebrew word usually translated “approach of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.”
Meaning
- An approach, a drawing near
How it's translated
- approach of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
קִרְבָה qeravah · nearness
an approach, a drawing near
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “nearness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NEARNESS, noun
- Closeness; small distance.
- Close alliance by blood; propinquity; as the nearness of brothers and sisters, parents and children.
- Close union by affection; intimacy of friendship.
- Parsimony; closeness in expenses.
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.