kerev · inside, midst

What it means

kerev (קֶרֶב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “inside, midst”.

The inside, what is within; "in the midst of", "within".

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. One's inner part, one's inmost self.
2. In the midst of: "among the people".
3. The organs inside the animal, its guts.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

The inside, what is within; “in the midst of”. BDB defines it as the nearest part, the center, literally or figuratively, especially with a preposition. It shares its root with קָרַב, “come near”.

• Within oneself: laughing “within herself” Genesis 18:12
• In the womb Genesis 25:22
• In the midst of the people: “Is YHWH among us?” Exodus 17:7
• The entrails of the animal offered Exodus 29:13
• The inner person Psalms 51:10Jeremiah 31:33

How we translate it

“Midst” 92 times, “among” 34, “among you” 28, “entrails” 19, “within” 9, “within me” 9. It is translated “in the midst of”, “among” or “within” according to the passage; in the laws of sacrifice, “entrails”.

How it is translated

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

• midst ×92
• among ×34
• among you ×28
• entrails ×19
• within ×9
• within me ×9
• him ×8
• within you ×6
• within it ×5
• middle ×4
• others ×13

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×8
• Exodus×16
• Leviticus×24
• Numbers×10
• Deuteronomy×41
• Joshua×20
• Judges×8
• 1 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×4
• Job×1
• Psalms×27
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×17
• Jeremiah×10
• Lamentations×4
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×2
• Joel×1
• Amos×5
• Micah×7
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×3
• Zephaniah×6
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 18:12

  So Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I am worn out, will I have pleasure, and my lord is old?”

• Genesis 18:24

  Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city; will you really sweep away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?

• Genesis 24:3

  and I will make you swear by YHWH, the Elohim of the heavens and the Elohim of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,

• Genesis 25:22

  The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If so, why me?” So she went to inquire of YHWH.

• Genesis 41:21

  They went into their bellies, but it could not be known that they had gone into their bellies, and their appearance was ugly just as at the beginning. Then I woke up.

• Genesis 45:6

  For these two years the famine has been in the midst of the land, and there are still five years in which there will be no plowing or harvest.

• Genesis 48:16

  the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the young men; and in them let my name be called, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them teem in multitude in the midst of the earth.”

• Exodus 3:20

  So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my marvels that I will do in its midst; and after that he will let you go.

• Exodus 8:22

  But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people live, so that there will be no swarms of flies there, that you may know that I am YHWH in the midst of the land.

• Exodus 10:1

  YHWH said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart and the heart of his servants insensitive, in order to put these signs of mine in their midst,

• Exodus 12:9

  Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all in water, but roasted in fire, its head with its legs and with its inner parts.

• Exodus 17:7

  He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the sons of Israel, and because they tested YHWH, saying, “Is YHWH among us or not?”

• Exodus 23:21

  Be careful before him and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

• Exodus 23:25

  You shall serve YHWH your Elohim, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.

• Exodus 29:13

  You shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe on the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and offer them up in smoke on the altar.

• Exodus 29:17

  You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and with its head.

• Exodus 29:22

  You shall take from the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh, for it is a ram of ordination,

• Exodus 31:14

  You shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Whoever profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.

• Exodus 33:3

  Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up in your midst, for you are a stubborn people, lest I consume you on the way.”

• Exodus 33:5

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are a stubborn people. If for one moment I went up in your midst, I would consume you. So now, take off your ornaments from you, and I will know what I will do with you.’”

• Exodus 34:9

  And he said, “If, please, I have found favor in your eyes, Adonai, let Adonai go, please, in our midst; although it is a stubborn people, forgive our iniquity and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”

• Exodus 34:10

  And he said, “Look, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do wonders that have not been created in all the earth or in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of YHWH, for it is fearsome, what I am doing with you.

• Exodus 34:12

  Take care not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.

• Leviticus 1:9

  Its entrails and its legs he shall wash in water, and the priest shall offer up in smoke all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 1:13

  The entrails and the legs he shall wash in water, and the priest shall present all of it and offer it up in smoke on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 3:3

  From the sacrifice of peace he shall present as a fire offering to YHWH the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

• Leviticus 3:9

  From the sacrifice of peace he shall present as a fire offering to YHWH its fat: the whole fat tail, which he shall remove close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

• Leviticus 3:14

  From it he shall present his offering, a fire offering to YHWH: the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

• Leviticus 4:8

  All the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall take off from it: the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

• Leviticus 4:11

  But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and with its legs, its entrails and its dung,

• Leviticus 7:3

  All its fat he shall present from it: the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails,

• Leviticus 8:16

  He took all the fat that was on the entrails, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and Moses offered it up in smoke on the altar.

• Leviticus 8:21

  The entrails and the legs he washed in water, and Moses offered up in smoke the whole ram on the altar; it was a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, it was a fire offering to YHWH, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 8:25

  He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh.

• Leviticus 9:14

  He washed the entrails and the legs and offered them up in smoke on top of the burnt offering on the altar.

• Leviticus 17:4

  and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to present an offering to YHWH before the dwelling of YHWH, blood shall be counted to that man: he has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

• Leviticus 17:10

  And any man of the house of Israel or of the resident aliens who reside among them, who eats any blood, I will set my face against the person who eats the blood, and I will cut that person off from among their people.

• Leviticus 18:29

  For whoever does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.

• Leviticus 20:3

  And I will set my face against that man and cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, so as to make unclean my sanctuary and to profane my holy name.

• Leviticus 20:5

  then I will set my face against that man and against his clan, and I will cut off him and all who prostitute themselves after him, prostituting themselves after Molech, from among their people.

And 187 more times.