Qᵉbûwrâh — H6900

Definition

feminine noun

sepulture; (concretely) a sepulchre

1. grave, burial, burial site
1. grave
2. burial

Usually translated as

burial, grave, burying place, sepulchre

Origin

or qᵉburâh; feminine passive participle of H6912

• Qâbar (H6912)

Greek equivalents

• mnēma (G3418)
• mnēmeîon (G3419)

Occurrences

Qᵉbûwrâh occurs 14 times in 13 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Deuteronomy (1), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Kings (3), 2 Chronicles (1), Ecclesiastes (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (2)

• Genesis 35:20 — And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave (קְבֻרָתָ֑הּ): that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.
• Genesis 35:20 — And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave (קְבֻֽרַת) unto this day.
• Genesis 47:30 — But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me (בִּקְבֻרָתָ֑ם) in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
• Deuteronomy 34:6 — And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his (קְבֻ֣רָת֔וֹ) sepulchre unto this day.
• 1 Samuel 10:2 — When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s (קְבֻרַ֥ת) sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
• 2 Kings 9:28 — And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him (בִקְבֻרָת֛וֹ) in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
• 2 Kings 21:26 — And he was buried in (בִּקְבֻרָת֖וֹ) his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
• 2 Kings 23:30 — And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him (בִּקְבֻֽרָת֑וֹ) in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
• 2 Chronicles 26:23 — So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial (הַקְּבוּרָה֙) which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
• Ecclesiastes 6:3 — If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial (קְבוּרָ֖ה); I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
• Isaiah 14:20 — Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial (בִּקְבוּרָ֔ה), because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
• Jeremiah 22:19 — He shall be buried with the burial (קְבוּרַ֥ת) of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
• Ezekiel 32:23 — Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave (קְבֻרָתָ֑הּ): all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
• Ezekiel 32:24 — There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave (קְבֻרָתָ֑הּ), all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.