כָּבַר
kâbar · H3527 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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in abundance
State in which substances are large in quantity
ExamplesJob 36:31 “For by them He judges peoples; He gives food in abundance.
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to multiply words, to talk much
Literally: to multiply words; hence: action by which humans hold long and verbose speeches
ExamplesJob 35:16 So Job opens his mouth with empty words; He multiplies words without knowledge.”
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִלָּהword, words 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ בְּלִיwithout, not 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
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 1 word
- רָבַב râbab · H7231 · to increase, to multiply, to become numerous
- Both lexemes denote multiplication or increase in quantity.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Quantity002001001046
- The verb describes multiplying or increasing in abundance, as when Job multiplies words in Job 35:16, and God gives food in abundance in Job 36:31.
- Speak002004001009008
- The verb is used specifically of multiplying words in speech, as when Job opens his mouth and multiplies words without knowledge in Job 35:16.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3527. kabar I. [כָּבַר] verb be much, many (Assyrian kabâru, be great, mighty; kabru,…
I. [כָּבַר] verb be much, many (Assyrian kabâru, be great, mighty; kabru, great, huge; Arabic be great, in body, rank, or age, great, noble, aged; Ethiopic be honoured, magnified; honoured, glorious; Sabean epithet כבר HalEt. Sab. JAs Dec. 1874, No. 90; Syriac , for Hebrew הִרְבָּה רָבָה,, (rare) much; Zinjirli be abundant, numerous) —
Hiph`il (only Elihu) make many, Job 35:16 יַכְבִּר מִלִּין דַעַת בִּבְלִי (compare אֲמָרָיו וְיֶרֶב Job 34:37) > make great, BuBeitr. 138, comparing Job 8:2; מַכְבִּיר with the force of a substantive (Ew§ 160 c) Job 36:31 אכל יתן לְמַכְֶבִּיר giveth food in abundance (= prose לָרֹב, e.g. 2Ch 11:23).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 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
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