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# קָרֵב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7131

**approaching** — used 12 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

approaching [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7131/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָרֵב²: adj.vb. approaching [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7131/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.vb. approaching;—abs. ק׳ 1 S 17:41 +; pl. קְרִבִים Ez 40:46; 45:4;—approaching: as pred., הֹלֵךְ וְק׳ אֶל־דָּוִד 1 S 17:41, אַתֶּם קְרֵבִים לַמִּלְחָמָה Dt 20:3; abs. הָלוֹךְ וְק׳ 2 S 18:25; c. art. as subst., 1 K 5:7 (+ אֶל־שֻׁלְחָן), Nu 17:28(×2) (+ אֶל־מִשְׁכַּן י׳). c. art., approaching י׳, temple or tabern., for service, c. לְשָׁרֵת Ez 40:46 (+ אֶל־י׳), 45:4; abs. הַזָּר הַקּ׳ Nu 1:51; 3:10, 38; 18:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: approaching (11); \[are\] approaching (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 17:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.17.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.17.28/#tree)

כֹּ֣ל הַקָּרֵ֧ב ׀ הַקָּרֵ֛ב אֶל־מִשְׁכַּ֥ן יְהוָ֖ה יָמ֑וּת הַאִ֥ם תַּ֖מְנוּ לִגְוֺֽעַ׃ס

*Word for word:* every (the).\[person\] approaching (the).\[person\] approaching to the.tabernacle of.Yahweh he.will.die ? or will.we.complete to die

*JPS 1917:* Every one that cometh near, that cometh near unto the tabernacle of the LORD, is to die; shall we wholly perish?'

[1 Samuel 17:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.41/#tree)

וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔י הֹלֵ֥ךְ וְקָרֵ֖ב אֶל־דָּוִ֑ד וְהָאִ֛ישׁ נֹשֵׂ֥א הַצִּנָּ֖ה לְפָנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.came the Philistine coming and approaching to David and the man the.bearer of the.body.shield \[was\] before him

*JPS 1917:* And the Philistine came nearer and nearer unto David; and the man that bore the shield went before him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7131.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7131/): 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).