{"def":{"lit":"dog","short":"Caleb, the name of three Israelites","long":["the godly son of Jephunneh and the faithful spy who reported the Promised Land favorably and urged its capture","son of Hezron and grandson of Pharez and great grandson of Judah and the father of Hur and grandfather of Caleb the spy"]},"deriv":"perhaps a form of H3611, or else from the same root in the sense of forcible","pronun":{"ipa":"kɔːˈleb","ipa_mod":"kɑːˈlev","sbl":"kālēb","dic":"kaw-LABE","dic_mod":"ka-LAVE"}}