Bible Names

Caleb: meaning of the name

Caleb means “a dog; a crow; a basket.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Caleb in Hebrew and Greek

כָּלֵב H3612

Kâlêb (kaw-labe') — Caleb, the name of three Israelites

perhaps a form of H3611 (כֶּלֶב), or else from the same root in the sense of forcible;

People named Caleb in the Bible

Caleb in Scripture

“Caleb” appears in 37 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Numbers 13:6

    Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

  • Numbers 13:30

    And 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 14:6

    And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

  • Numbers 14:24

    But 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 14:30

    Doubtless 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 14:38

    But 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 26:65

    For 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 32:12

    Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the Lord.