To inter
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H6912 describes burying or interring the dead and appears in family remembrance, public mourning, succession notices, acts of courage, covenant promises, battlefield aftermath, mass death, disgrace, and denied burial. The verb can mark a peaceful family burial, honored communal grief, urgent recovery of bodies, an ordinary royal notice, burial amid judgment, or the horror of bodies left unburied, so the act and its.
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H6912 describes burying or interring the dead and appears in family remembrance, public mourning, succession notices, acts of courage, covenant promises, battlefield aftermath, mass death, disgrace, and denied burial. The verb can mark a peaceful family burial, honored communal grief, urgent recovery of bodies, an ordinary royal notice, burial amid.
The BSB source-word alignment has 133 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include and was buried (34), And they buried (6), and buried (5), and he was buried (5), and buried him (4).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 15:15. Its strongest book concentrations include Genesis (28), 2 Kings (19), 1 Kings (18), 2 Chronicles (17).
H6912 describes burying or interring the dead and appears in family remembrance, public mourning, succession notices, acts of courage, covenant promises, battlefield aftermath, mass death, disgrace, and denied burial. The verb can mark a peaceful family burial, honored communal grief, urgent recovery of bodies, an ordinary royal notice, burial amid judgment, or the horror of bodies left unburied, so the act and its circumstances must both be named.
In 1Sam. 25. 1, all Israel gathers to mourn Samuel and buries him at his home in Ramah before David moves into the wilderness. In 1Chr. 10. 12, valiant men recover the bodies of Saul and his sons, bury their bones under the oak at Jabesh, and fast for seven days. H6912 opens teaching on the dignity of caring for the dead, the grief of those who remain, and the biblical honesty that burial can occur in peace, violence, honor, obscurity, or devastating absence.
It corrects spiritualizing that rushes mourners past bodies and burial, and it challenges communities that deny dignity, exploit funeral grief, or treat a particular burial practice as the measure of a persons standing before God. H6912 records both care and catastrophe: Israel gathers to mourn Samuel and buries him at Ramah, valiant men recover and bury the bones of Saul and his sons, and Psalm 79 laments slaughter so severe that no one remains to bury the dead.
Burial can embody grief, loyalty, memory, and bodily dignity, while denied burial intensifies the horror of violence. The verb itself does not announce a persons eternal state or remove the sorrow and injustice surrounding death. For H6912, responsible teaching keeps lexical meaning, passage context, canonical synthesis, and present application distinguishable.
H6912 does not guarantee a peaceful death, make burial location determine salvation, require one modern funeral form, excuse financial exploitation of mourners, or turn mass graves and unburied bodies into abstract illustrations detached from victims and families.
H6912 appears across passages that develop mortality, grief, bodily dignity, family memory, communal mourning, courageous care, violent death, judgment, burial inequity, resurrection hope, and pastoral presence. For H6912, the immediate setting decides which part of the range is active, so the witnesses must remain distinct rather than being merged into one formula.
When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.
All Israel gathers to mourn Samuel and buries him at his home in Ramah before David moves into the wilderness.
All their men of valor set out and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.
Valiant men recover the bodies of Saul and his sons, bury their bones under the oak at Jabesh, and fast for seven days.
They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
The lament describes blood poured around Jerusalem and the indignity of there being no one to bury the dead.
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Hebrew word. Burial as the fundamental act honoring human dignity, essential completion of covenant relationship with the dead.
Burial as the fundamental act honoring human dignity, essential completion of covenant relationship with the dead.
to inter BDB: bury Usage: × in any wise, bury(-ier).
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קָבַר is a primitive root - no further derivation.
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H6912 records both care and catastrophe: Israel gathers to mourn Samuel and buries him at Ramah, valiant men recover and bury the bones of Saul and his sons, and Psalm 79 laments slaughter so severe that no one remains to bury the dead. Burial can embody grief, loyalty, memory, and bodily dignity, while denied burial intensifies the horror of violence. The verb itself does not announce a persons eternal state or remove the sorrow and injustice surrounding death.
H6912 describes burying or interring the dead and appears in family remembrance, public mourning, succession notices, acts of courage, covenant promises, battlefield aftermath, mass death, disgrace, and denied burial. The selected witnesses keep the teaching concrete: 1Sam. 25. 1 shows that all Israel gathers to mourn Samuel and buries him at his home in Ramah before David moves into the wilderness, while 1Chr.
10. 12 Shows that valiant men recover the bodies of Saul and his sons, bury their bones under the oak at Jabesh, and fast for seven days. Ps. 79. 3 adds that the lament describes blood poured around Jerusalem and the indignity of there being no one to bury the dead. H6912 opens teaching on the dignity of caring for the dead, the grief of those who remain, and the biblical honesty that burial can occur in peace, violence, honor, obscurity, or devastating absence.
It corrects spiritualizing that rushes mourners past bodies and burial, and it challenges communities that deny dignity, exploit funeral grief, or treat a particular burial practice as the measure of a persons standing before God. A church teaching H6912 faithfully will name both the promise and the boundary carried by these contexts, attend to vulnerable hearers, and refuse to make the lexical item prove more than its passages support.
H6912 does not guarantee a peaceful death, make burial location determine salvation, require one modern funeral form, excuse financial exploitation of mourners, or turn mass graves and unburied bodies into abstract illustrations detached from victims and families.
1Sam.25.1
H6912 is a Hebrew verb for burying or interring and can be used actively or passively; subjects, bodies, locations, mourning actions, and narrative setting show whether burial is honored, ordinary, contested, hurried, or denied.
Scripture treats care for the dead as meaningful while locating final hope beyond the grave. Jesus is truly buried, rises bodily, and promises resurrection, enabling Christians to grieve honestly, honor bodies, oppose desecration, and entrust people whose burial circumstances were disrupted to Gods justice and mercy.