Word

כָּלֵב

Kâlêb · H3612 · Hebrew · proper noun · 35 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Calebfirst named in Numbers 13:630 verses
Calebson of Hezron7 verses

Meanings

Caleb

Man; son of Jephunneh; clan of Kenaz; tribe of Judah; one of the twelve men sent by Moses to spy out the land

Examples
Deuteronomy 1:36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him I will give the land on which he has set foot, and to his sons, because he has followed the LORD fully.’
Joshua 14:6 Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the word which the LORD spoke to Moses the man of God on account of you and me in Kadesh-barnea.
Joshua 14:13 So Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.
Caleb

Man, also known as Chelubai; son of Hezron; tribe of Judah

Examples
1 Chronicles 2:18 Now Caleb the son of Hezron had sons by Azubah his wife, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
1 Chronicles 2:19 When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore to him Hur.
1 Chronicles 2:42 Now the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and his son was Mareshah, the father of Hebron.
Caleb

Location; south of Israel

Examples
1 Samuel 30:14 “We carried out an attack on the Negev of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

19 occurrences in 4 groups

בֵּןson 17
קְנִזִּיKenizzite 3
אָחbrother 1
עֶבֶדservant, slave 1

What it doesIt is the subject

12 occurrences in 8 groups

אָמַרto say 5
הָסָהto be silent 1
חָיָהto be alive, to become alive, to live 1
יָלַדto bear 1
יָרַשׁto possess, to drive out, to inherit 1
לָקַחto take, to receive 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

מַטֶּהtribe, staff, rod 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 3 groups

לto/for 12
בִּלְתִּיnot 1
זוּלָהexcept 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

10 occurrences in 5 groups

בֵּןson 3
אָחbrother 3
פִּילֶגֶשׁconcubine 2
בַּתdaughter 1
נֶגֶבsouth, the Negeb 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Names of People003001007: כָּלֵב is the personal name of Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who with Joshua brought back a faithful report from spying out Canaan, illustrated at Numbers 13:6, 13:30, and 14:24.
Names of Locations003001010: The same name also designates the territory or region in the southern hill country associated with Caleb's descendants, illustrated at 1 Samuel 30:14 ("the Negev of Caleb").

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3612. Kaleb כָּלֵב proper name, masculine (Nabataean proper name כלבא Eut (Nö)p. 55.…

H3612. Kaleb
כָּלֵב proper name, masculine (Nabataean proper name כלבא Eut (Nö)p. 55. כלבו VogNab. 6; compare also WeSkizzen u. Vorarbeiten iii. 217; on כָּלֵב = dog-clan, see RSK 17, 190 f., 219, 254); — son of יְפֻנֶּה (ᵐ5 Ξαλεβ; compare LagBN 78), called הַקְּנִזִּי (see קְנַז) in J E, Num 32:12; Jos 14:6, Jos 14:14, compare Jos 15:17 = Jdg 1:13; Jdg 3:9 (where קְנַז is brother of ׳כ), also 1Ch 4:15; treated as full Judahite only in P Num 13:6 (see GFMJu p. 30 f.) the one of the spies who (with Joshua) reported well of Canaan Num 14:6, Num 14:24, Num 14:30, Num 14:38; also Num 26:65; Num 34:19; Deu 1:36; Jos 14:13; Jos 15:13-14, Jos 15:16, Jos 15:18; Jos 21:12 (P = 1Ch 6:41) Jdg 1:12, Jdg 1:14, Jdg 1:15, Jdg 1:20 (|| with Joshua 15); = clan of Caleb 1Sa 30:14 (distinguished from Judah). Caleb is called בֶּןחֶֿצְרוֺן 1Ch 2:18, compare 1Ch 2:19; 1Ch 2:42; 1Ch 2:46; 1Ch 2:48; 1Ch 2:49; 1Ch 2:50 = כְּלוּבָ֑י 1Ch 2:9; אֶפְרָתָה בְּכָלֵב 1Ch 2:24, read perh כ ׳בָּא, so ᵑ9 ᵐ5, compare KauAT (see אֶפְרָתָה above)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Names of People34 occurrences Names of Locations1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0