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# קֻבָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6898

**large vaulted tent** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

large vaulted tent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6898/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֻבָּה: n.f. large vaulted tent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6898/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. large vaulted tent;—abs. Nu 25:8 (P) Ke al. Zimri’s princely tent; \> Thes al. large tent used as lupanar (cf. NH).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: tent (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 25:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.25.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.25.8/#tree)

וַ֠יָּבֹא אַחַ֨ר אִֽישׁ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אֶל־הַקֻּבָּ֗ה וַיִּדְקֹר֙ אֶת־שְׁנֵיהֶ֔ם אֵ֚ת אִ֣ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאֶת־הָאִשָּׁ֖ה אֶל־קֳבָתָ֑הּ וַתֵּֽעָצַר֙ הַמַּגֵּפָ֔ה מֵעַ֖ל בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.went after the.man of.Israel into the tent and he.pierced.through (et) both of.them (et) the.man of.Israel and (et) the woman into belly her and it.was.restrained the plague from on the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And he went after the man of Israel into the chamber, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6898.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6898/): 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).