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# קִרְבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7132

**approach** — used 2 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

approach [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7132/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִרְבָה: n.f. approach [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7132/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. approach;—cstr. in phr. קִרְבַת אֱלֹהִים approach to God (CheIntr. Is. 325) Is 58:2 ψ 73:28.

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 73:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.28/#tree)

וַאֲנִ֤י ׀ קִֽרֲבַ֥ת אֱלֹהִ֗ים לִ֫י־ט֥וֹב שַׁתִּ֤י ׀ בַּאדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֣ה מַחְסִ֑י לְ֝סַפֵּ֗ר כָּל־מַלְאֲכוֹתֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* and I the.approach of.God for me \[is\].good I.have.made in \[the\] Lord Yahweh refuge my to recount all works your

*JPS 1917:* But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all Thy works.

[Isaiah 58:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.58.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.58.2/#tree)

וְאוֹתִ֗י י֥וֹם יוֹם֙ יִדְרֹשׁ֔וּן וְדַ֥עַת דְּרָכַ֖י יֶחְפָּצ֑וּן כְּג֞וֹי אֲשֶׁר־צְדָקָ֣ה עָשָׂ֗ה וּמִשְׁפַּ֤ט אֱלֹהָיו֙ לֹ֣א עָזָ֔ב יִשְׁאָל֙וּנִי֙ מִשְׁפְּטֵי־צֶ֔דֶק קִרְבַ֥ת אֱלֹהִ֖ים יֶחְפָּצֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* and me day day they seek and the.knowledge my.ways my they desire like a.nation which righteousness it.has.done and the.judgment its.God his not it.has.forsaken they ask.me judgments of.righteousness the.approach of.God they desire

*JPS 1917:* Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways; as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of Me righteous ordinances, they delight to draw near unto God.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7132/): 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).