Strong's H3612 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: כָּלֵב (Kâlêb)

Pronunciation: kaw-labe'

Morphology: n-pr-m

Name Meaning: Caleb = "dog"

Derivation: perhaps a form of כֶּלֶב (keleb) [H3611], or else from the same root in the sense of forcible;

Definition: Caleb, the name of three Israelites

KJV Renderings: Caleb.

Senses

1. the godly son of Jephunneh and the faithful spy who reported the Promised Land favourably and urged its capture
2. son of Hezron and grandson of Pharez and great grandson of Judah and the father of Hur and grandfather of Caleb the spy

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.