kaval · receive; be opposite

What it means

kaval (קָבַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “receive; be opposite”.

Receive, accept; in another form, be opposite one another (Exodus 26:5).

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. To take on something, good or bad.
2. To face each other.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Accept ×4
• received ×4
• accepted ×2
• opposite ×2
• receive ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Esther×3
• Job×2
• Proverbs×1

• Exodus 26:5

  Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set, the loops opposite one to another.

• Exodus 36:12

  Fifty loops he made on the one curtain, and fifty loops he made on the end of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one to another.

• 1 Chronicles 12:18

  Then the spirit clothed Amasai, head of the captains: “We are yours, David, and with you, son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to the one who helps you, for your Elohim helps you.” And David received them and set them among the heads of the band.

• 1 Chronicles 21:11

  Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says YHWH: ‘Accept for yourself:

• 2 Chronicles 29:16

  The priests went into the inner part of the house of YHWH to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of YHWH to the court of the house of YHWH; and the Levites received it to carry it out to the brook Kidron, outside.

• 2 Chronicles 29:22

  They slaughtered the cattle, and the priests received the blood and splashed it on the altar; and they slaughtered the rams and splashed the blood on the altar; and they slaughtered the lambs and splashed the blood on the altar.

• Ezra 8:30

  And the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold and the utensils, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our Elohim.

• Esther 4:4

  And Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and made it known to her, and the queen was greatly shaken; and she sent clothes to clothe Mordecai, and to remove his sackcloth from him, but he did not accept them.

• Esther 9:23

  And the Jews accepted what they had begun to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.

• Esther 9:27

  the Jews established and accepted for themselves and for their offspring and for all who joined them, so that it would not pass away, that they would observe these two days according to their writing and according to their appointed time, every year;

• Job 2:10

  He said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we accept the good from Elohim too, and not accept the evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

• Proverbs 19:20

  Listen to counsel and receive correction, so that you may become wise in your end.

And 1 more times.