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Joshua 15:13
“And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H3612 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Caleb, the name of three Israelites
- Derivation
- perhaps a form of H3611 (כֶּלֶב), or else from the same root in the sense of forcible;
- KJV renderings
- Caleb.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- לְ — preposition
- כָלֵ֣ב — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 35 times in the Hebrew Bible.Numbers 13:6Numbers 13:30Numbers 14:6Numbers 14:24Numbers 14:30
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read כָּלֵב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.