Strong H3612H3612Gכָּלֵב
Caleb
One of the 2 senses of Strong H3612
- Transliteration
- kâlêb
- Pronunciation
- kaw-labe'
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
Meaning of the name
Caleb = "dog"
General definition
Perhaps a form of {H3611 } or else from the same root in the sense of forcible;
{Caleb} the name of three Israelites: - Caleb.
{Caleb} the name of three Israelites: - Caleb.
In the biblical story
Caleb
Faithful spy, given Hebron as inheritance
Caleb, one of the twelve spies, remained faithful to God and was granted Hebron as his inheritance.
In the Bible
Strong H3612G appears in 28 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- caleb23
- save3
- s2
First verses
- Numbers 13:6Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
- Numbers 13:30And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
- Numbers 14:6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
- Numbers 14:24But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
- Numbers 14:30Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 14:38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
- Numbers 26:65For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 32:12Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the Lord.
- Numbers 34:19And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
- Deuteronomy 1:36Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord.
- Joshua 14:6Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh–barnea.
- Joshua 14:13And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
- Joshua 14:14Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel.
- Joshua 15:13And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.
- Joshua 15:14And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
- Joshua 15:16And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath–sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
- Joshua 15:17And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
- Joshua 15:18And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?
- Joshua 21:12But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
- Judges 1:12And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath–sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.