kevura · grave

What it means

kevura (קְבוּרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grave”.

Tomb; burial.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The place where the dead are laid, or the act of laying them there.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• burial ×6
• grave ×6
• tomb ×2

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 35:20

  Jacob set up a standing stone on her grave; it is the standing stone of Rachel’s grave to this day.

• Genesis 47:30

  When I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” He said, “I will do as you have said.”

• Deuteronomy 34:6

  And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; and no man has known his burial place to this day.

• 1 Samuel 10:2

  When you go from me today, you will find two men by the tomb of Rachel in the territory of Benjamin, at Zelzah, and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys that you went to look for have been found, and look, your father has given up the matter of the donkeys and is worried about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’

• 2 Kings 9:28

  His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.

• 2 Kings 21:26

  They buried him in his grave in the garden of Uzzah; and Josiah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 23:30

  His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own grave. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

• 2 Chronicles 26:23

  Uzziah lay down with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial that belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is leprous.” And Jotham his son reigned in his place.

• Ecclesiastes 6:3

  If a man fathers a hundred and lives many years, and many are the days of his years, but his soul is not satisfied with good, and also he has had no burial, I say, better than he is the stillborn.

• Isaiah 14:20

  You will not be joined with them in burial, for you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will never be named.

• Jeremiah 22:19

  With the burial of a donkey he will be buried, dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

• Ezekiel 32:23

  whose graves were put in the deepest parts of the pit, and her assembly is around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who put terror in the land of the living.

• Ezekiel 32:24

  There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all of them slain, those fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the land of the depths, who put their terror in the land of the living; and they bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

And 1 more times.