כְּבִיר
kᵉbîyr · H3523 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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cloth, pillow
Exact meaning uncertain; possibly: some kind of braided piece of bedcloth
Examples1 Samuel 19:13 And Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed, and put a quilt of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothing.
1 Samuel 19:16 When the messengers entered, behold, the household idol was on the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair at its head.
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
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵזgoat, goat's hair 2
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מְרַאֲשָׁהplace at the head 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.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- מְרַאֲשָׁה mᵉraʼăshâh · H4763 · place at the head
- Hebrew noun referring to something placed at the head for support or comfort, semantically overlapping with כְּבִיר as a head-rest or cushion.
- כֶּסֶת keçeth · H3704 · band
- Hebrew term for a cushion or pillow-like object, functioning as a near synonym for a soft furnishing used for comfort or support.
In the other Testament 1 word
- προσκεφάλαιον proskephálaion · G4344 · cushion, pillow
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for a pillow or cushion used for resting the head, as attested in Mark 4:38 where Jesus sleeps on a pillow in the boat.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Furnishings001003001001008
- The word names a pillow or cushion, a household furnishing, as with the pillow of goats' hair Michal placed in David's bed in 1 Samuel 19:13.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3523. kabir [כָּבִיר] noun [masculine] probably something netted, i.e. either a quilt or…
[כָּבִיר] noun [masculine] probably something netted, i.e. either a quilt or (EwH. 8. 77 Ke) a
fly-net (κωνωπεῖον) spread over the face while a person was asleep; 1Sa 19:13, 1Sa 19:16 הָעִזִּים כְּבִיר a quilt (or fly-net) of goats (' hair). See further Dron the passage
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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