HebrewH6965Verb

קָמָי

qa.may

548Occurrences
H6965Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)

a primitive root;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Combined with lev (*לֵב *"Leb" H3820B) § -Kamai = "my adversary" Leb-kamai, i.e., people of Gambulai

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

H:V

Full Description

Hebrew Verb

Occurrences

קָמָי appears 548 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
49
Jeremiah
41
1 Samuel
39
Judges
38
1 Kings
36
Isaiah
35
2 Samuel
33
Deuteronomy
29

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 10:12BSB

all their men of valor set out and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

2 Kings 3:24BSB

But when the Moabites came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and attacked them, and they fled before them. So the Israelites invaded their land and struck down the Moabites.

Exodus 40:18BSB

When Moses set up the tabernacle, he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars, and set up its posts.

Judges 13:11BSB

So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?”“I am,” he said.

Joshua 24:26BSB

Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was near the sanctuary of the LORD.

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