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קָבַר H6912

H6912 is the Hebrew word קָבַר, transliterated qâbar and said kaw-bar'. The King James Version most often renders it buried.

Word: קָבַרTransliteration: qâbarSaid: kaw-bar'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 119 verses

What it means

to inter.

Where it comes from

a primitive root.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 122 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

buried 88×bury 23×none to bury 2×you that i may bury 1×mayest bury 1×should bury 1×buried her 1×bury me 1×pray thee and bury 1×because there they buried 1×wise 1×woman and bury 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: [idiom] in any wise, bury(-ier).

Verses using קָבַר

The first 40 of 119 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 15:15 · KJV

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Genesis 23:4 · KJV

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.

Genesis 23:6 · KJV

Hear 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 23:8 · KJV

And 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 23:11 · KJV

Nay, 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 23:13 · KJV

And 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 23:15 · KJV

My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

Genesis 23:19 · KJV

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 25:9 · KJV

And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;

Genesis 25:10 · KJV

The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

Genesis 35:8 · KJV

But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.

Genesis 35:19 · KJV

And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

Genesis 47:29 · KJV

And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

Genesis 47:30 · KJV

But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

Genesis 48:7 · KJV

And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.

Genesis 49:29 · KJV

And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Genesis 49:31 · KJV

There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

Genesis 50:5 · KJV

My 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 50:6 · KJV

And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

Genesis 50:7 · KJV

And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

Genesis 50:13 · KJV

For 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.

Genesis 50:14 · KJV

And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

Numbers 11:34 · KJV

And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

Numbers 33:4 · KJV

For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.

Deuteronomy 10:6 · KJV

And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead.

Deuteronomy 21:23 · KJV

His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 34:6 · KJV

And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

Joshua 24:30 · KJV

And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.

Joshua 24:32 · KJV

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

Joshua 24:33 · KJV

And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.

Judges 2:9 · KJV

And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

Judges 8:32 · KJV

And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 10:2 · KJV

And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

Judges 10:5 · KJV

And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.

Judges 12:7 · KJV

And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Judges 12:10 · KJV

Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.

Judges 12:12 · KJV

And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.

Judges 12:15 · KJV

And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.

Judges 16:31 · KJV

Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

Ruth 1:17 · KJV

Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

Common questions

What does Strong's H6912 mean?

H6912 is the Hebrew word קָבַר (qâbar), meaning to inter.

How is H6912 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it buried (88 times), bury (23 times), none to bury (2 times), you that i may bury (1 time), mayest bury (1 time), among others.

How many times does H6912 appear in the Bible?

קָבַר (qâbar) is tagged in 119 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H6912 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: a primitive root.

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