קֶשֶׁב

keshev · attention

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7182 · appears 4 times in the Bible

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What it means

keshev (קֶשֶׁב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “attention”.

The act of listening to someone.

How to say it

ke·shev

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. Giving ear and replying.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • attention ×3
  • response ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • 1 Kings 18:29

    And it happened, when noon had passed, that they prophesied until the time of offering the grain offering; but there was no voice, and no one answering, and no attention.

  • 2 Kings 4:31

    Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the face of the boy, but there was no sound and no response. He went back to meet him and told him, saying, “The boy has not awakened.”

  • Isaiah 21:7

    And when he sees chariots, pairs of horsemen, chariots of donkeys, chariots of camels, let him pay attention with attention, much attention.”

And 1 more times.