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# קָבַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6895

**utter a curse against** — used 14 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

utter a curse against [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6895/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָבַב: vb. utter curse against, curse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6895/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. utter a curse against, curse (cf. יקו\[ב\] Ecclus 41:7):— curse, c. acc. usually pers.: Pf. 3 ms. sf. קַבֹּה (Ges§ 58 d) Nu 23:8; 2 ms. sf. consec. וְקַבֹּתוֹ v 27; Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּקֹּב (Ges§ 67 g) Lv 24:11 (c. acc. אֶת־הַשֵּׁם); 2 ms. sf. תִּקֳּבֶנּוּ Nu 23:25 (+ Inf. abs.); 1 s. אֶקֹּב v 8 (obj. om.); וָאֶקּוֹב נָוֵהוּ Jb 5:3 (prob. corrupt; 𝔊 Du read וַיִּרְקַב, cf. Me Bi Siegf Beer; וַיִּפָּקֵד Bu; ויּוּקַב CheJQ July, 1897, 575; וַיִּבֹּק BevJPhil. xxvi. 308 (cf. Is 24:1, 3; Je 51:2; Na 2:3)); 3 mpl. sf. יִקְבֻהוּ Jb 3:8; Pr 11:26; 24:24; Imv. ms. קָֽבָה־לִּי (Ges§ 67 o Köi. 329 ff.) Nu 22:11, 17, sf. 3 ms. וְקָבְנוֹ־לִי (Ges§ 67 o) 23:13 (all JE; all + לִי as dat. comm., so also v 27 vid. Pf. supr.); Inf. abs. קֹב v 25 (+ Impf.); Inf. cstr. לָקֹב v 11; 24:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: curse (5); they (2); you (2).

## In the verses

[Job 3:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.8/#tree)

יִקְּבֻ֥הוּ אֹרְרֵי־י֑וֹם הָ֝עֲתִידִ֗ים עֹרֵ֥ר לִוְיָתָֽן׃

*Word for word:* let them.curse.it \[those.who\].curse (of).a.day the.\[ones\] ready to.rouse Leviathan

*JPS 1917:* Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

[Job 5:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.3/#tree)

אֲ‍ֽנִי־רָ֭אִיתִי אֱוִ֣יל מַשְׁרִ֑ישׁ וָאֶקּ֖וֹב נָוֵ֣הוּ פִתְאֹֽם׃

*Word for word:* I I.have.seen a.fool taking.root and I.cursed habitation his suddenly

*JPS 1917:* I have seen the foolish taking root; but suddenly I beheld his habitation cursed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6895.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6895/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).