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# כָּבִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3523

**netted** — used 2 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

netted [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3523/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּבִיר: quilt fly-net [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3523/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] prob. something netted, i.e. either a quilt or (EwH 3. 77 Ke) a fly-net (κωνωπεῖον) spread over the face while a person was asleep; 1 S 19:13, 16 כְּבִיר הָעִזִּים a quilt (or fly-net) of goats(’ hair). Vid. further Drad loc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 19:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.16/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ הַמַּלְאָכִ֔ים וְהִנֵּ֥ה הַתְּרָפִ֖ים אֶל־הַמִּטָּ֑ה וּכְבִ֥יר הָעִזִּ֖ים מְרַאֲשֹׁתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and they.came the messengers and there! the teraphim \[was\].to the bed and the.quilt of.(the) goat.hair(s) place.of.its.head \[was\].the

*JPS 1917:* And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the quilt of goats' hair at the head thereof.

[1 Samuel 19:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.13/#tree)

וַתִּקַּ֨ח מִיכַ֜ל אֶת־הַתְּרָפִ֗ים וַתָּ֙שֶׂם֙ אֶל־הַמִּטָּ֔ה וְאֵת֙ כְּבִ֣יר הָֽעִזִּ֔ים שָׂ֖מָה מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֑יו וַתְּכַ֖ס בַּבָּֽגֶד׃ס

*Word for word:* and she.took Michal (et) the teraphim and she.put.\[it\] into the bed and (et) (the).quilt of.(the) goat.hair(s) she.put of.its.head the.place and she.covered.\[it\] with the garment

*JPS 1917:* And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a quilt of goats' hair at the head thereof, and covered it with a cloth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3523.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3523/): 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).