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HebrewH3612Proper Noun (Masculine)

כָּלֵב

ka.lev

34Occurrences
H3612Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Caleb, the name of three Israelites

perhaps a form of H3611 (כֶּלֶב), or else from the same root in the sense of forcible;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness and Israel before the Monarchy, first mentioned at ; son of: Jephunneh (H3312); brother of: Kenaz (H7073I); father of: Achsah (H5915), Iru (H5900), Elah (H0425J), Naam (H5277) Also named: ka.lib.bo (*כָּלִבִּי *"Calebite" H3614) § Caleb = "dog" 1) the godly son of Jephunneh and the faithful spy who reported the Promised Land favourably and urged its capture 2) son of Hezron and grandson of Pharez and great grandson of Judah and the father of Hur and grandfather of Caleb the spy

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

כָּלֵב appears 34 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
9
Numbers
9
1 Chronicles
8
Judges
6
1 Samuel
1
Deuteronomy
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 2:18BSB

Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah and by Jerioth. These were the sons of Azubah: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

1 Chronicles 2:50BSB

These were the descendants of Caleb.The sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah:Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,

Judges 1:14BSB

One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

Joshua 14:14BSB

Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.

Joshua 21:12BSB

But they had given the fields and villages around the city to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.