Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H2268: חֶבֶר

Cheber · pronounced kheh'-ber · “Heber”

Definition

Cheber, the name of a Kenite and of three Israelites

KJV translates it as: Heber.

Word origin: the same as H2267 (חֶבֶר); community;

Extended definition

A man of the tribe of Asher living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.46.17;
son of: Beriah (H1283);
brother of: Malchiel (H4439);
father of: Japhlet (H3310), Shomer (H7763H), Hotham (H2369) and Shua (H7774)
Also named: chev.ri (חֶבְרִי "Heberite" H2277)
§ 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

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H2268 is translated

  • heber ×11

Bible verses with H2268 (Cheber)

Cheber appears in 10 verses.

  • 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 7:31

    And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith.

  • 1 Chronicles 7:32

    And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.

  • 1 Chronicles 8:17

    And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and Heber,

Words derived from H2268

חֶבְרִי H2277

Chebrîy — Heberite