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# כְּבֵדֻת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3517

**heaviness** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

heaviness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3517/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּבֵדֻת: n.f. heaviness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3517/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. heaviness, וַיְנַהֲגֵהוּ בִּכ׳ Ex 14:25 (J) and they drave them with heaviness (difficulty).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: difficulty (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 14:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.14.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.14.25/#tree)

וַיָּ֗סַר אֵ֚ת אֹפַ֣ן מַרְכְּבֹתָ֔יו וַֽיְנַהֲגֵ֖הוּ בִּכְבֵדֻ֑ת וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מִצְרַ֗יִם אָנ֙וּסָה֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל כִּ֣י יְהוָ֔ה נִלְחָ֥ם לָהֶ֖ם בְּמִצְרָֽיִם

*Word for word:* and he.turned.aside (et) the.wheel\[s\] its.chariots his and he caused.it.to.drive with difficulty and it.said Egypt let.me.flee from before Israel (dm) Yahweh \[is\].fighting for them against Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them to drive heavily; so that the Egyptians said: 'Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3517.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3517/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).