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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Grave

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

67exact KJV occurrences 59Old Testament 8New Testament 22books containing the word 9mapped Strong's IDs 67occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 35:20

And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Titus 2:2

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where grave appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 76 verses Exodus 22 verses Numbers 22 verses 1 Samuel 11 verses 2 Samuel 22 verses 1 Kings 44 verses 2 Kings 11 verses 2 Chronicles 33 verses Job 1111 verses Psalms 109 verses Proverbs 22 verses Ecclesiastes 11 verses Song of Solomon 11 verses Isaiah 55 verses Jeremiah 11 verses Ezekiel 33 verses Hosea 21 verses Nahum 11 verses John 44 verses 1 Corinthians 11 verses 1 Timothy 22 verses Titus 11 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH7585
שְׁאוֹל

shᵉʼôwl · sheh-ole'

30 times translated as this KJV form65 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates

Strong's KJV usage: grave, hell, pit.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 37:35Strong's last: Hosea 13:14

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HebrewH6605
פָּתַח

pâthach · paw-thakh'

4 times translated as this KJV form144 total Strong's occurrences

v

to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve

Strong's KJV usage: appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-) grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Exodus 28:9Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 2:14

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HebrewH1164
בְּעִי

bᵉʻîy · beh-ee'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a prayer

Strong's KJV usage: grave.

Strong's first: Job 30:24Strong's last: Job 30:24

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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67 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Genesis 35:20
H6900

And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

Genesis 35:20
H6900

And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

Genesis 37:35
H7585

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

Genesis 42:38
H7585

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 44:29
H7585

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 44:31
H7585

It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 50:5
H6913

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

Exodus 28:9
H6605

And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

Exodus 28:36
H6605

And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

Numbers 19:16
H6913

And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:18
H6913

And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

1 Samuel 2:6
H7585

The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

2 Samuel 3:32
H6913

And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

2 Samuel 19:37
H6913

Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.

1 Kings 2:6
H7585

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

1 Kings 2:9
H7585

Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.

1 Kings 13:30
H6913

And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!

1 Kings 14:13
H6913

And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

2 Kings 22:20
H6913

Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

2 Chronicles 2:7
H6605

Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

2 Chronicles 2:14
H6605

The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

2 Chronicles 34:28
H6913

Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

Job 3:22
H6913

Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Job 5:26
H6913

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

Job 7:9
H7585

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

grave

GRAVE, a final syllable, is a grove.

GRAVE, verb transitive preterit tense graved; participle passive graven or graved. [Gr. to write; originally all writing was graving; Eng. to scrape.]

1. To carve or cut letters or figures on stone or other hard substance, with a chisel or edged tool; to engrave. [The latter word is now more generally used.]

Thou shalt take two onyx-stones and grave on them the names of the children of Israel. Exodus 28:9.

2. To carve; to form or shape by cutting with a chisel; as, to grave an image.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Exodus 20:4.

3. To clean a ship's bottom by burning off filth, grass or other foreign matter, and paying it over with pitch.

4. To entomb. [Unusual.]

GRAVE, verb intransitive To carve; to write or delineate on hard substances; to practice engraving.

GRAVE, noun [Latin scrobs.]

1. The ditch, pit or excavated place in which a dead human body is deposited; a place for the corpse of a human being; a sepulcher.

2. A tomb.

3. Any place where the dead are reposited; a place of great slaughter or mortality. Flanders was formerly the grave of English armies. Russia proved to be the grave of the French army under Bonaparte. The tropical climates are the grave of American seamen and of British soldiers.

4. Graves, in the plural, sediment of tallow melted. [Not in use or local.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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