קְרָבָה
kerava · nearness
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7132 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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kerava (קְרָבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “nearness”.
The fact of being near or drawing near to someone.
How to say it
ke·ra·va
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
- Being or coming close to someone.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 73:28
But as for me, the nearness of Elohim to me is good; I have placed my refuge in Adonai YHWH, to recount all your works.
- Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me day after day, and they desire to know my ways, like a nation that had done righteousness and had not forsaken the justice of its Elohim; they ask me for judgments of righteousness; they desire the nearness of Elohim.