Bible Names

Heber: meaning of the name

Heber means “one that passes; anger.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Heber in Hebrew and Greek

חֶבֶר H2268

Cheber (kheh'-ber) — Cheber, the name of a Kenite and of three Israelites

the same as H2267 (חֶבֶר); community;

עֵבֵר H5677

ʻÊbêr (ay'-ber) — Eber, the name of two patriarchs and four Israelites

the same as H5676 (עֵבֶר);

People named Heber in the Bible

Heber in Scripture

“Heber” appears in 13 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 46:17

    And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

  • Numbers 26:45

    Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.

  • Judges 4:11

    Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.

  • Judges 4:17

    Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

  • Judges 4:21

    Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

  • Judges 5:24

    Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:18

    And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.

  • 1 Chronicles 5:13

    And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.