Hebrew word · H2268
חֶ֫בֶר
chever
Heber
Appears 11 times in 10 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.
What it means
A man living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jdg.4.11; married to Jael (H3278)
§ Heber = "comrade"
1) the Kenite, husband of Jael, who slew Sisera by driving a nail into his temple
2) grandson of Asher from whom came the Heberites
3) father of Socho, a Judahite
4) a Benjamite
5) another Benjamite
6) a Gadite
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Where it appears
Genesis · 1
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Genesis 46:17 חֶ֖בֶר Heber
The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
Numbers · 1
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Numbers 26:45 לְחֶ֕בֶר of Heber
And these were the descendants of Beriah: the Heberite clan from Heber and the Malchielite clan from Malchiel.
Judges · 5
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Judges 4:11 וְחֶ֤בֶר and Heber
Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.
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Judges 4:17 חֶ֣בֶר חֶ֥בֶר Heber
Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
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Judges 4:21 חֶ֠בֶר Heber
But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
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Judges 5:24 חֶ֣בֶר Heber
Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.
1 Chronicles · 4
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1 Chronicles 4:18 חֶ֙בֶר֙ Heber
These were the children of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah. Mered also took a Judean wife, who gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.
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1 Chronicles 7:31 חֶ֖בֶר Heber
The sons of Beriah: Heber, as well as Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
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1 Chronicles 7:32 וְחֶ֙בֶר֙ and Heber
Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, and of their sister Shua.
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1 Chronicles 8:17 וָחָֽבֶר׃ and Heber
Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber,
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