Word

כֹּבֶד

kôbed · H3514 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

heaviness

State in which objects are relatively heavy

Examples
Proverbs 27:3 A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
abundance

State in which objects are large in quantity

Examples
Nahum 3:3 Horsemen charging, Swords flashing, spears gleaming, Many killed, a mass of corpses, And there is no end to the dead bodies— They stumble over the dead bodies!
heavy, intense, thick

State in which an event is intense

Examples
Isaiah 21:15 For they have fled from the swords, From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, And from the press of battle.
Isaiah 30:27 Behold, the name of the LORD comes from a remote place; His anger is burning and dense with smoke; His lips are filled with indignation, And His tongue is like a consuming fire;

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

מִלְחָמָהwar, battle 1
מַשָּׂאָהrising (smoke) 1
פֶּגֶרcorpse 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֶבֶןstone 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Near synonyms 1 word

נֵטֶל nêṭel · H5192 · heaviness: Both lexemes denote heaviness or weightiness in Hebrew, two distinct words that overlap in the semantic space of heaviness.

In the other Testament 1 word

βαρύς barýs · G926 · heavy, burdensome, troublous: Greek βαρύς renders Hebrew כֹּבֶד in contexts emphasizing weight, burden, or severity—both lexemes denote heaviness in literal or figurative senses (grievousness, oppressiveness).

Semantic domains 3 entries

Heavy002001001032: The noun names heaviness or weightiness, a grievous burden, in keeping with its glossed sense "grievousness, heavy."
Quantity002001001046: The noun's glossed sense "great number" describes an abundant quantity, a large accumulated amount.
Intense002001003011: The noun describes an intensified degree of severity or weightiness, in keeping with its glossed sense "grievousness."

Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

כָּבַד kâbad · H3513 · to be heavy, to be burdensome · 113×כָּבוֹד kâbôwd · H3519 · honor, power, dignity · 200×כָּבֵד kâbêd · H3515 · heavy, "heavy of tongue" > difficult language · 41×כָּבֵד kâbêd · H3516 · heavy, "heavy of tongue" > difficult language · 14×כֹּבֶדkôbed · H3514כְּבוּדָּה kᵉbûwddâh · H3520 · greatness, glory, valuable goods · 3×כְּבֵדֻת kᵉbêduth · H3517 · heaviness, difficulty · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3514. kobed כֹּ֫בֶד noun [masculine] 1 heaviness, weight of a stone Pro 27:3. 2 mass,…

H3514. kobed
כֹּ֫בֶד noun [masculine]
1 heaviness, weight of a stone Pro 27:3.
2 mass, abundance, of corpses Nah 3:3.
3 vehemence, of war Isa 21:15, of storm Isa 30:27.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Heavy1 occurrence Quantity1 occurrence Intense2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0