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# קָבַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6906

**rob** — used 6 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

rob [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6906/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָבַע: vb. rob [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6906/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. dub., perhaps rob (syn. גזל, so Rabb. (rare), v. De Pr 22:23);— Pf. 3 ms. consec. וְקָבֵע Pr 22:23, subj. י׳, c. acc. pers. + rei; c. acc. pers. alone 1 pl. בַּמֶּה קְבַעֲנוּךָ Mal 3:8 (obj. י׳); Impf. 3 ms. הֲיִקְבַּע אָדָם אֱלֹהִים v 8; Pt. act. אַתֶּם קֹבְעִים אֹתִי v 8, 9; sf. קֹבְעֵיהֶם Pr 22:23 those robbing them.—In Mal 𝔊 We עָקַב circumvent.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] robbing (2); \[those (1); have (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 22:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.23/#tree)

כִּֽי־יְ֭הוָה יָרִ֣יב רִיבָ֑ם וְקָבַ֖ע אֶת־קֹבְעֵיהֶ֣ם נָֽפֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) Yahweh he.will.conduct case their and he.will.rob (et) \[those who\].rob.them life

*JPS 1917:* For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them.

[Malachi 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.9/#tree)

בַּמְּאֵרָה֙ אַתֶּ֣ם נֵֽאָרִ֔ים וְאֹתִ֖י אַתֶּ֣ם קֹבְעִ֑ים הַגּ֖וֹי כֻּלּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* with (the) curse you \[are\].cursed and me you \[are\].robbing the nation of.it all

*JPS 1917:* Ye are cursed with the curse, yet ye rob Me, even this whole nation.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6906.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6906/): 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).