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title: קִרְבָה — approach · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קִרְבָה (7132), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: approach. BDB 1906: n.f. approach. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קִרְבָה

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«קִרְבָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **approach** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 7132 · **BDB:** קִרְבָה

### Glosses

the.approach (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קִרְבָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7132/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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