כְּבָר
kᵉbâr · H3528 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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already
A marker pointing to the time preceding a particular point in time, sometimes including an element of surprise
ExamplesEcclesiastes 1:10 Is there anything of which one might say, “See this, it is new”? It has already existed for ages Which were before us.
Ecclesiastes 3:15 That which is, is what has already been, and that which will be has already been; and God seeks what has passed by.
Ecclesiastes 9:6 Indeed their love, their hate, and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.
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 said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἤδη ḗdē · G2235 · already, already now, now at last
- Greek ἤδη and Hebrew כְּבָר function as direct temporal equivalents expressing the concept 'already/now,' with ἤδη serving as the standard LXX rendering of כְּבָר's sense of completed or present temporal state.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of Waterbodies003001015
- This entry carries no independent waterbody sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the adverb “already”, as in “Is there anything of which one might say, ‘See this, it is new’? It has already existed for ages which were before us” (Ecclesiastes 1:10). The “Names of Waterbodies” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme כְּבָר (Kᵉbâr, H3529) rather than independently attested here.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3528. kebar I. כְּבָר adverb (late) already (frequently in Mishna and Late Hebrew; כבר…
I. כְּבָר adverb (late) already (frequently in Mishna and Late Hebrew; כבר ᵑ7 (rare); Syriac usually perhaps, occas. already (Mat 11:21; Heb 10:2); Mandean כבאר already, NöM. p. 202. Der. uncertain, connection with √ כבר being dubious) — already, Ecc 1:10 הָיָה כְּבָר it hath already been, Ecc 2:12, Ecc 2:16; Ecc 3:15 (twice in verse); Ecc 4:2; Ecc 6:10; Ecc 9:6-7,.
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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