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Strong's H6913 קֶבֶר (qeber)

Qeber means “sepulchre” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6913
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 62
Books 15

Strong's H6913 Quick Answer

Strong's H6913 קֶבֶר קִברָה (qeber,) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. qeber, (keh'-ber) (or (feminine) qibrah {kib-raw'}) n-m. 1. a sepulchre [from H6912] It has 62 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include grave, sepulchre, place, bury, and our. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
qeber, (keh'-ber) (or (feminine) qibrah {kib-raw'}) n-m. 1. a sepulchre [from H6912]
Usage
62 linked usages
Books
15 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
grave, sepulchre, place, bury, and our

Meaning and Definition

qeber, (keh'-ber) (or (feminine) qibrah {kib-raw'}) n-m. 1. a sepulchre [from H6912] KJV: burying place, grave, sepulchre. Root(s): H6912

Original Word
קֶבֶר קִברָה
Transliteration
qeber,
Derivation
Root: קבר First root strongs: 6912
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6913. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H6913 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render qeber,, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

grave Genesis 50:5 17× sepulchre Judges 8:32 12× place 2 Kings 22:20 bury 1 Kings 14:13 our Genesis 23:6

How Strong's H6913 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 62 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6913 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6913 in the Old Testament

62 indexed usages in Old Testament.

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 23:9 KJV

That 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.

Usage Excerpts

First 62 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6913.

Genesis 23:4 Old Testament, 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 Old Testament, 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 23:9 Old Testament, KJV
That 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 23:20 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 49:30 Old Testament, KJV
In 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 50:5 Old Testament, 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 50:13 Old Testament, 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.
Exodus 14:11 Old Testament, KJV
And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
Numbers 19:16 Old Testament, KJV
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Numbers 19:18 Old Testament, KJV
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
Judges 8:32 Old Testament, 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 16:31 Old Testament, 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.
2 Samuel 2:32 Old Testament, KJV
And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.
2 Samuel 3:32 Old Testament, KJV
And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
2 Samuel 4:12 Old Testament, KJV
And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
2 Samuel 17:23 Old Testament, KJV
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
2 Samuel 19:37 Old Testament, KJV
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
2 Samuel 21:14 Old Testament, KJV
And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.
1 Kings 13:22 Old Testament, KJV
But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
1 Kings 13:30 Old Testament, KJV
And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
1 Kings 13:31 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
1 Kings 14:13 Old Testament, KJV
And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
2 Kings 13:21 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
2 Kings 22:20 Old Testament, KJV
Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
2 Kings 23:6 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
2 Kings 23:16 Old Testament, KJV
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
2 Kings 23:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
2 Chronicles 16:14 Old Testament, KJV
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
2 Chronicles 21:20 Old Testament, KJV
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2 Chronicles 24:25 Old Testament, KJV
And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2 Chronicles 28:27 Old Testament, KJV
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 32:33 Old Testament, KJV
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 34:4 Old Testament, KJV
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
2 Chronicles 34:28 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
2 Chronicles 35:24 Old Testament, KJV
His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
Nehemiah 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Nehemiah 2:5 Old Testament, KJV
And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
Nehemiah 3:16 Old Testament, KJV
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
Job 3:22 Old Testament, KJV
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Job 5:26 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Job 10:19 Old Testament, KJV
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 17:1 Old Testament, KJV
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Job 21:32 Old Testament, KJV
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Psalms 5:9 Old Testament, KJV
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Psalms 88:5 Old Testament, KJV
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Psalms 88:11 Old Testament, KJV
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
Isaiah 14:19 Old Testament, KJV
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Isaiah 22:16 Old Testament, KJV
What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
Isaiah 53:9 Old Testament, KJV
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isaiah 65:4 Old Testament, KJV
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Jeremiah 5:16 Old Testament, KJV
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
Jeremiah 8:1 Old Testament, KJV
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
Jeremiah 20:17 Old Testament, KJV
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
Jeremiah 26:23 Old Testament, KJV
And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
Ezekiel 32:22 Old Testament, KJV
Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
Ezekiel 32:23 Old Testament, KJV
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:25 Old Testament, KJV
They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
Ezekiel 32:26 Old Testament, KJV
There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 37:12 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 37:13 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
Ezekiel 39:11 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
Nahum 1:14 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6913, grouped by book.

Genesis 7 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 6 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 5 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 8 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Job 5 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 7 usages, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6913 FAQ

What does qeber (קֶבֶר) mean?

Qeber (Strong's H6913) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "sepulchre". qeber, (keh'-ber) (or (feminine) qibrah {kib-raw'}) n-m. 1. a sepulchre [from H6912]

How many times is qeber (קֶבֶר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 62 linked usages for Strong's H6913 across 15 books.

Where can I study qeber (קֶבֶר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6913 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate qeber (קֶבֶר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as grave, sepulchre, place, bury, and our. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.