קָבַר (b. h.) [to cave out; to arch,] to bury. Snh. 52ᵃ הנראה מי קוֹבֵר את מי (Ms. M. הא נראה) we shall see, which will cover which (which will die first). Sot. 14ᵃ הקב"ה ק׳ … קְבוֹר מתים the Lord buried the dead, … thou, too, bury the dead (consider attending to the dead a religious duty). Nidd. 24ᵇ קובר מתים הייתי I used to be a grave-digger. B. Bath. 15ᵇ לא … לִקְבּוֹר וכ׳ he had no place where to bury Sarah; Ex. R. s. 6. Treat. S’maḥ. ch. XII קָבְרֵנִי תחלה וכ׳ first bury me in the valley, and then collect my bones. Ib. קִבְרוּ אותי תחת וכ׳ bury me at the feet of my father. Sabb. 114ᵃ אל תִּקְבְּרוּנִי לא וכ׳ bury me neither in white clothes nor in black &c.; a. fr.—Part. pass. קָבוּר; f. קְבוּרָה. Keth. 111ᵃ כל הק׳ בא"י כאילו ק׳ וכ׳ he that is buried in Palestine is as though buried under the altar. Ber. 18ᵇ שאני ק׳ במחצלת וכ׳ for I am buried in a reed mat. Gitt. 56ᵇ (ref. to Koh. VIII, 10) קְבוּרִים ממש וכ׳ it really means buried things, for even hidden things were discovered by them, v. קָבַץ; a. fr.
Nif. - נִקְכַּר to be buried. Snh. 47ᵃ לא נספד ולא נ׳ if a body has been neither lamented over (v. סָפַד) nor buried. Ib.ᵇ לא יִקָּבֵר בו וכ׳ he must never be buried in that place; a. fr.
Pi. - קִיבֵּר to bury (one after the other). Ib. 113ᵃ היה מְקַבֵּר והולך וכ׳ he successively buried (his children) beginning with Abiham &c.