King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3612
Transliteration: Kaleb
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-labe')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: a son of Jephunneh and sent by Moses to spy out the land
Meaning: Caleb -- a son of Jephunneh and sent by Moses to spy out the land
Word Summary
Kaleb: a son of Jephunneh and sent by Moses to spy out the land
Original Word: כָּלֵבTransliteration: Kaleb
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-labe')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: a son of Jephunneh and sent by Moses to spy out the land
Meaning: Caleb -- a son of Jephunneh and sent by Moses to spy out the land
Strong's Concordance
Caleb Perhaps a form of keleb, or else from the same root in the sense of forcible; Caleb, the name of three Israelites -- Caleb.
see HEBREW keleb
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3612. Kaleb
כָּלֵב proper name, masculine (Nabataean proper name כלבא Eut (Nö)p. 55. כלבו VogNab. 6; compare also WeSkizzen u. Vorarbeiten iii. 217; on כָּלֵב = dog-clan, see RSK 17, 190 f., 219, 254); — son of יְפֻנֶּה (ᵐ5 Ξαλεβ; compare LagBN 78), called הַקְּנִזִּי (see קְנַז) in J E, Numbers 32:12; Joshua 14:6, 14, compare 15:17 = Judges 1:13; 3:9 (where קְנַז is brother of ׳כ), also 1 Chronicles 4:15; treated as full Judahite only in P Numbers 13:6 (see GFMJu p. 30 f.) the one of the spies who (with Joshua) reported well of Canaan 14:6, 24, 30, 38; also 26:65; 34:19; Deuteronomy 1:36; Joshua 14:13; 15:13-14, 16, 18; 21:12 (P = 1 Chronicles 6:41) Judges 1:12, 14, 15, 20 ("" with Joshua 15); = clan of Caleb 1 Samuel 30:14 (distinguished from Judah). Caleb is called בֶּןחֶֿצְרוֺן 1 Chronicles 2:18, compare 2:19; 2:42; 2:46; 2:48; 2:49; 2:50 = כְּלוּבָ֑י 2:9; אֶפְרָתָה בְּכָלֵב 2:24, read perh כ ׳בָּא, so ᵑ9 ᵐ5, compare KauAT (see אֶפְרָתָה above)