Lexicon
קְבֻרָה
qe.vu.rah
H6900
H:N-F Hebrew

tomb

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Occurrences
9
Books
Hebrew
Language

qe.vu.rah denotes a tomb as a burial place and, in some contexts, the burial a person receives or lacks.

The term most often identifies a burial place, including a named or family tomb and a tomb around which the dead are situated. In a smaller group of contexts, it concerns burial as the treatment received, withheld, or compared.

Senses in use

  1. A designated tomb or burial place · dominant

    Construct forms identify a particular burial site: in Genesis 35:20 the two forms occur as Jacob sets up a pillar upon Rachel's tomb and identifies it again; in Genesis 47:30 the speaker asks to be carried from Egypt and buried in the tomb of his fathers. In Ezekiel 32:23 and Ezekiel 32:24, the term marks the tomb around which slain groups are gathered.

  2. Burial received, withheld, or characterized · common

    In Ecclesiastes 6:3, the absolute form occurs in the contrast between long life without burial and a miscarriage. Isaiah 14:20 says that the addressed figure will not be joined with others in burial, while Jeremiah 22:19 uses a construct form in the comparison to the burial of a donkey.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “tomb” where a particular site is in view, as in Genesis 35:20 and 2 Kings 21:26. In burial-treatment contexts it uses “burial,” including Ecclesiastes 6:3 and Isaiah 14:20; these renderings reflect whole clauses rather than a word-by-word alignment.

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Across Scripture