כַּבִּיר
kabbîyr · H3524 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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mighty
State in which humans, deities or substances have great power and strength
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mighty, powerful
State in which an event happens with intensity
ExamplesJob 8:2 “How long will you say these things, And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
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advanced in years, old
Literally: strong in days; hence: state in which humans are advanced in age; associated with wisdom
ExamplesJob 15:10 “Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, Older than your father.
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much, plenty
State in which objects are large in quantity
ExamplesJob 31:25 If I have gloated because my wealth was great, And because my hand had obtained so much;
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- מָצָאto find 1
- רָעַעto do evil, to act wickedly, to do harm 1
- רָשַׁעto condemn, to act wickedly 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֵלGod, god 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 4 words
- כָּבֵד kâbêd · H3515 · heavy, "heavy of tongue" > difficult language
- Both words describe intensification or largeness and quantity (strong, intense, much), and overlap in contexts of magnitude or strength.
- חָזָק châzâq · H2389 · strong, powerful, mighty
- Both words overlap substantially in sense, including the concepts "strong" and "mighty," and both express strength and intensity.
- גָּדוֹל gâdôwl · H1419 · large, big, huge
- Both lexemes genuinely denote intensity and magnitude (גָּדוֹל (gâdôwl, H1419) "great, mighty, much"; כַּבִּיר (kabbîyr, H3524) "mighty, much, strong, valiant") and represent true near-synonyms—distinct words that could substitute for each other in contexts requiring intensity/greatness.
- אַמִּיץ ʼammîyts · H533 · strong, powerful, brave
- Both lexemes are strength or might terms with overlapping senses, both glossed as mighty or strong.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Strong002001001063
- The adjective is the common word for mighty or strong, as in its glossed sense "mighty... strong, valiant."
- Intense002001003011
- The adjective describes an intensified degree of strength or power, in keeping with its glossed sense "much... valiant."
- Old002001001041
- The adjective's glossed sense "feeble" can describe an aged, weakened condition, a contrasting nuance alongside its more common sense of strength.
- Quantity002001001046
- The adjective's glossed sense "most, much" describes a great quantity or abundance of strength or resources.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3524. kabbir כַּבִּיר adjective great, mighty, much only in poetry, and only Job, Isa1:…
כַּבִּיר adjective great, mighty, much only in poetry, and only Job, Isa1: — Isa 10:13 Qr (but read as Kt כְּאַבִּיר), Isa 17:12; and Isa 28:2 כבירים מים (usually רַבִּים מַיִם), Job 8:2 פיך אמרי כביר ורוח a mighty wind, Job 15:10 ימים מאביך כביר (Ges§ 131, R 5a) = aged: of God, Job 34:17 צַדִּיק כַּבִּיר the just mighty one, Job 36:5 a, vb ׳כ לֵב כֹּחַ mighty in strength of understanding; Job 34:24 כבירים mighty men; of quantity = much, Isa 16:14 כַבִּיר לוֺא מִזְעָר מְעַט שְׁאָר, Job 31:25 ידי מצאה כביר וכי had gotten much.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 entries
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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