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title: קַב — ḳab · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קַב (6894), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: ḳab. BDB 1906: ḳab. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קַב

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«קַב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ḳab** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 6894 · **BDB:** קַב²

### Glosses

the.kab (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

ḳab [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6894/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

ḳab [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6894/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] ḳab (NH id.; Syriac ܩܰܒܳܐ; Talm קַבָּא);—a measure of capacity, BH only dry measure, רֹבַע הַקַּב 2 K 6:25 1/4 ḳab; on size of קַב = 4 לֹג = 1/6 סְאָה = 1/3 הִין = c. 2 litres v. NowArch. i. 202 f. BenzArch. 182.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קַב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6894/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 6:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.6.25/)

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וַיְהִ֨י רָעָ֤ב גָּדוֹל֙ בְּשֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן וְהִנֵּ֖ה צָרִ֣ים עָלֶ֑יהָ עַ֣ד הֱי֤וֹת רֹאשׁ־חֲמוֹר֙ בִּשְׁמֹנִ֣ים כֶּ֔סֶף וְרֹ֛בַע הַקַּ֥ב דִּבְיוֹנִ֖יםבַּחֲמִשָּׁה־כָֽסֶף׃

*Word for word:* and it.was a.famine great in Samaria and there! \[they.were\].laying.siege on it until was \[the\].head of.a.donkey for eighty silver and the.fourth.part of the.kab doves'.dung(s) for five silver

*JPS 1917:* And there was a great famine in Samaria; and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

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