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# כֹּבֶד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3514

**weight** — used 4 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

weight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3514/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֹּ֫בֶד: heaviness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3514/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] heaviness, weight of a stone Pr 27:3. mass, abundance, of corpses Na 3:3. vehemence, of war Is 21:15, of storm Is 30:27.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 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: \[the\] weight (2); weight (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 27:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.3/#tree)

כֹּֽבֶד־אֶ֭בֶן וְנֵ֣טֶל הַח֑וֹל וְכַ֥עַס אֱ֝וִ֗יל כָּבֵ֥ד מִשְּׁנֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].weight of.a.stone and the.burden of.(the) sand and.\[the\] provocation of.a.fool \[is\].heavy more than both.of.them

*JPS 1917:* A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than they both.

[Isaiah 21:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.15/#tree)

כִּֽי־מִפְּנֵ֥י חֲרָב֖וֹת נָדָ֑דוּ מִפְּנֵ֣י ׀ חֶ֣רֶב נְטוּשָׁ֗ה וּמִפְּנֵי֙ קֶ֣שֶׁת דְּרוּכָ֔ה וּמִפְּנֵ֖י כֹּ֥בֶד מִלְחָמָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) from before swords they.have.fled from before a.sword drawn and from before a.bow bent and from before \[the\].weight of.battle

*JPS 1917:* For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3514.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3514/): 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).