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# כָּבֵד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3516

**liver** — used 14 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

liver [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3516/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּבֵד³: liver [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3516/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f. Gn 49, 6\] liver (explained by Thes (quoting Galen) as the heavy organ, par excellence, of the body; NH כָּבֵד; Aramaic כַּבְדָא, ܟܰܒܕܳܐ; Arabic كَبِدٌ, cf. أَكْبَدُ (anything) large, thick in the middle; Ethiopic ከብድ Assyrian kabittu DlHWB temper, heart (fig.), Aramaic כְּבַד, ܐܶܬܟܰܒܰܕ be angry, because the liver was regarded as seat of emotions)—כ׳ Ex 29:13 + 11 times; כְּבֵדוֹ Pr 7:23; כְּבֵדִי La 2:11;—liver of man, as pierced by arrow Pr 7:23; poured out in sorrow La 2:11; of animals as consulted by divination רָאָה בַּכּ׳ Ez 21:26; elsewhere in P, in phrases (ה)יֹתֶרֶת (עַל־)הַכָּבֵד Ex 29:13, 22; Lv 3:4, 10, 15; 4:9; 7:4; 8:16, 25; 9:19; הַיֹּתֶרֶת מִן־הַכּ׳ Lv 9:10, of the animals suited for sacrifice.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: liver (10); the liver (4).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 7:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.23/#tree)

עַ֤ד יְפַלַּ֪ח חֵ֡ץ כְּֽבֵד֗וֹ כְּמַהֵ֣ר צִפּ֣וֹר אֶל־פָּ֑ח וְלֹֽא־יָ֝דַ֗ע כִּֽי־בְנַפְשׁ֥וֹ הֽוּא׃פ

*Word for word:* until it.will.pierce an.arrow liver his as hurries a.bird into a.trap and not he.knows (dm).that \[is\].for life his it

*JPS 1917:* Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteneth to the snare — and knoweth not that it is at the cost of his life.

[Leviticus 9:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.19/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַחֲלָבִ֖ים מִן־הַשּׁ֑וֹר וּמִן־הָאַ֔יִל הָֽאַלְיָ֤ה וְהַֽמְכַסֶּה֙ וְהַכְּלָיֹ֔ת וְיֹתֶ֖רֶת הַכָּבֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the fat(s) from the ox and from the ram the.fat tail and the covering and the kidneys and the.lobe of the.liver

*JPS 1917:* and the fat of the ox, and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3516.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3516/): 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).