קְרָב
qᵉrâb · H7128 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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battle, war
Armed conflict in which weapons are used to attack an enemy
Examples2 Samuel 17:11 “But I advise that all Israel be fully gathered to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, like the sand that is by the sea in abundance; and that you personally go into battle.
Job 38:23 Which I have reserved for a time of distress, For a day of war and battle?
Psalm 55:18 He will redeem my soul in peace from the battle which is against me, For they are many who are aggressive toward me.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֵבheart, mind 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָפֵץto like, to be pleased, to desire 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- מִןfrom 2
- בin/on/with 2
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- יוֹםday, time 3
- כְּלִיvessel, utensil, weapon 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- מִלְחָמָה milchâmâh · H4421 · war, battle, to draw up a battle line
- Both lemmas are genuine Hebrew nouns denoting armed conflict ("battle, war"), functioning as true near-synonyms that could substitute for one another in describing combat contexts.
In the other Testament 1 word
- πόλεμος pólemos · G4171 · war, fighting, fight
- Greek πόλεμος renders Hebrew קְרָב as the standard term for armed conflict, encompassing both individual battles and sustained warfare in LXX translation practice.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Conflict002003002006
- The word means battle or war, directly illustrated by the advice to gather all Israel for battle (2 Samuel 17:11) and Job's rhetorical question about "a day of war and battle" (Job 38:23).
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7128. qerab קְרָב noun [masculine] battle, war (hostile approach; Aramaism = קְרָב,…
קְרָב noun [masculine] battle, war (hostile approach; Aramaism = קְרָב, compare LagBn 175); — abs ׳ק Zec 14:3 +; plural קְרָבוֺת Psa 68:31; — || מִלְחָמָח Job 38:23; Psa 144:1; ק ׳יוֺם Zec 14:3; Psa 78:9; ׳כְּלֵיק Ecc 9:18; his heart was war Psa 55:22 (see 19 see √ Qal 1 a); plural Psa 68:31 people that delight in battles; — 2Sa 17:11 read ᵑ9 ᵑ6 ᵐ5 בְּקִרְבָּם Th Dr and most.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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