כִּבְרָה
kibrâh · H3530 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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short distance
A relatively short distance
ExamplesGenesis 35:16 Then they journeyed on from Bethel; but when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe difficulties in her labor.
Genesis 48:7 “Now as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died, to my sorrow, in the land of Canaan on the journey, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”
2 Kings 5:19 He said to him, “Go in peace.” So he went some distance from him.
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 1 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 3
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עוֹדstill, again, yet 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Tools001003001001017
- This entry carries no independent “Tools” sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the noun for a stretch of distance, as in “Then they journeyed on from Bethel; but when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath” (Genesis 35:16). The “Tools” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme כְּבָרָה (kᵉbârâh, H3531) rather than independently attested here.
- Dimension002001001020
- The word names a measure of distance or extent, as with the distance still remaining to Ephrath in Genesis 35:16 and 48:7.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3530. kibrah [כִּבְרָה] noun feminine apparently distance, only in the phrase (ה)ארץ…
[כִּבְרָה] noun feminine apparently distance, only in the phrase (ה)ארץ כִּבְרַת a distance of land or length of way, Gen 35:16 כ עוֺד ׳וַיְהִי ׳ה אֶפְרָתָה לָכוֺא, Gen 48:7 כ ׳בְּעוֺד ׳א אֶפְרָתָה לָבאֹ, 2Ki 5:19 כ מֵאִתּוֺ ׳וַיֵּלֶךְ אָ֑רֶץ. The distance meant is uncertain, but from 2Ki 5:19 it would seem to have been a short one; see further DiGen 35:16 and Thes (Assyrian kibrâti is a (widely extended) territory, quarter of the world, etc., DlHWB 315; according to Hoffm.GGAbh. xxxvi (1890), 23-25 perhaps the distance that one can see).
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
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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