“And he called the name of that place Kibroth–hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.”
So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there the people who had the craving were buried — the site is named 'Graves of Craving' (Kibroth-hattaavah, literally 'tombs of desiring'). The naming memorializes that the people who craved meat died satisfying that craving. The wilderness place-names chronicle Israel's sins and God's judgments: Taberah (burning), Kibroth-hattaavah (graves of craving). The landscape becomes Israel's confession of transgression.
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