STRONGS NUMBER H7130


Word Summary
qereb: inward part, midst
Original Word: קֶרֶב
Transliteration: qereb
Phonetic Spelling: (keh'-reb)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: inward part, midst
Meaning: the nearest part, the center
Strong's Concordance
among, before, bowels, unto charge, eat up, heart, him, in,

From qarab; properly, the nearest part, i.e. The center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition) -- X among, X before, bowels, X unto charge, + eat (up), X heart, X him, X in, inward (X -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, + out of, purtenance, X therein, X through, X within self.

see HEBREW qarab

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7130. qereb

קֶ֫רֶב227 noun [masculine] inward part, midst; — ׳ק‎ absolute Exodus 29:13 + (only 3); construct Genesis 45:6 +; suffix קִרְבִּיJoshua 9:7 +, 3 feminine plural קִרְבֶֹּנָהGenesis 41:21, בֶֹּנָה‎- 41:21 (Ges§ 91i. Köii.1488 N.I), etc.; plural only (suffix) קְרָבַיPsalm 103:1; — usually with preposition (׳בְּק‎143t. ׳מִקּ‎43t.); —

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a. inward part of human body, physical sense, ׳בְּקwithin one's body Genesis 25:22 (J), compare 18:12 (J), 1 Samuel 25:37; Jeremiah 23:9; Job 20:14 ("" בְּמֵעָיו‎), compare Isaiah 19:1 (of nation personified) into his body Psalm 109:18 (simile); as seat of life עַלקִֿרְבּוֺ נֶפֶשׁהַֿיּלֶד (וַ)תָּשָׁב1 Kings 17:21-22, compare (of idol) Habakkuk 2:19 (see also 2).

b. = belly, of kine ׳אֶלקֿGenesis 41:21; 14:21

c. of city (׳בְּקwithin it, ׳מִקּ‎ etc.) Genesis 18:24; Judges 18:7; Amos 3:9 + 18:t compare Isaiah 25:11 ׳בְּק חוּצוֺת5:25.

d of house Psalm 101:2; 101:7; temple 48:10; ׳בְּק דֶ֑ךָ מוֺעֲ74:4.

e. of land (earth) Genesis 45:6; 48:16; Amos 2:3; Isaiah 5:8; 24:13 ("" הָעַמִּים בְּתוֺח‎), + 10 t. (׳מִקּ ׳בְּק‎).

f. of a number of person, ׳כְּקin the midst, among, ׳מִקּfrom among: especially (1) people (96 t.; 80 t. as singular collective, 15 t. plural Amos 7:8; Genesis 24:3; Exodus 23:25; Deuteronomy 31:17; Jeremiah 46:21; 1 Samuel 4:3; Joshua 7:12; Judges 10:16 +, ׳בְּק ׳יִשׂDeuteronomy 17:10 +, יִשׂ ׳בֵּית ׳בְּקAmos 7:10 ׳בְּק הַכְּנַעֲנִיJudges 1:32-33, 3:5, ׳מִקּ גּוֺיDeuteronomy 4:34 etc (2) ׳בְּק הַמַּחֲנֶה׳(מִק )Joshua 1:11; Numbers 14:44 6t. (3) ׳בְּק אֶחָיוDeuteronomy 18:2; 1 Samuel 16:13, and (׳מִק‎) Deuteronomy 17:15; 18:18. (4) ׳מִקּ עַמֶּיהָExodus 31:14 (II.עַם‎) (5) ׳בְּק אֹיְכֶיךָPsalm 110:2 compare (of wicked) 55:16 ׳בְּק חֲכָמִיםProverbs 15:31. (6) ׳בְּק יִשְׁמֹּט אֱלֹהִיםPsalm 82:1 -7׳בְּק הַמִּלְחָמָה1 Kings 20:39 into the midst of the battle, the thick of the fight; ׳בְּק צָרָה‎ Palam 1Ki 138:7. (8) of nations, ׳בְּק הַגּוֺיִםDeuteronomy 29:15, הָעַמִּיםLamentations 3:45, compare Joshua 24:17; Micah 5:6; 5:7.

g. ׳מִקּ חוקךPsalm 74:11 (Qr חֵיקְךָ‎) thy hand from within thy bosom, (anthropomorphism of ׳י‎; see I כלהPi`el 2 c).

h. of a period of time,׳בְּק שָׁנִיםHabakkuk 3:2 (twice in verse)

2 of inward part of man;

a. as seat of thought and emotion : ׳בְּק1 Kings 3:28; Jeremiah 4:14; 9:7; Proverbs 26:24; Psalm 62:5; 94:19; "" בְלֵבProverbs 14:33, עַללֵֿבJeremiah 31:33; seat of לֵבPsalm 39:4; 55:5; 109:22; Lamentations 1:20; of רוּחַEzekiel 11:19; 36:26-27, Zechariah 12:1; Isaiah 26:6; Psalm 51:12, compare Isaiah 19:3, 14; ׳בְּק לִבִּיPsalm 36:2 (read לִבּוֺ‎ Vrss Hup Now Che Bae and others)

b. as faculty of thought and emotion, sujb. (no perp.) Isaiah 16:11 ("" מֵעַי‎) Psalm 64:7 ("" לֵב‎) 5:10; כָּלקְֿרָבַי103:1 (only here plural; "" נַפְשִׁי‎); — 49:12 read ᵑ7 ᵑ6 ᵐ5 קִבְרָם‎, or קְבָרִם‎, Ew Gr Ol Bi Che Bae and others (for קִרְבָּם‎)

3 technical term in P of entrails of sacrificial animals (Di Leviticus 1:9, 13; 3:3 (twice in verse); 3:9 (twice in verse); 3:14 (twice in verse); 4:8 (twice in verse); 4:11; 7:3; 8:16, 21, 25; 9:14.