Kâlêb — H3612

H3612 · Hebrew — כלב

Pronunciation: kaw-labe'

Definition

masculine proper noun

Caleb, the name of three Israelites

  1. Caleb = "dog"
  2. the godly son of Jephunneh and the faithful spy who reported the Promised Land favourably and urged its capture
  3. son of Hezron and grandson of Pharez and great grandson of Judah and the father of Hur and grandfather of Caleb the spy

Usually translated as

Caleb

Origin

perhaps a form of H3611, or else from the same root in the sense of forcible

Occurrences

Kâlêb occurs 36 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (9), Deuteronomy (1), Joshua (9), Judges (6), 1 Samuel (2), 1 Chronicles (9)

Strong's Lexicon — K