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# כַּבִּיר

Biblical Hebrew

**great** — 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

great [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b7_5bc_5d1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּבִּיר: adj. great, mighty, much [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b7_5bc_5d1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. great, mighty, much, only poet., and only Jb Is 1:—Is 10:13 Qr (but read as Kt כְּאַבִּיר), 17:22 and 28:2 מים כבירים (usually מַיִם רַבִּים), Jb 8:2 ורוח כביר אמרי פיך a mighty wind, 15:10 כביר מאביך ימים (Ges§131, R 5 a) = aged: of God, 34:17 צַדִּיק כַּבִּיר the just mighty one, 36:5 a, v b כ׳ כֹּחַ לֵב mighty in strength of understanding; 34:24 כבירים mighty men; of quantity = much, Is 16:14 שְׁאָר מְעַט מִזְעָר לוֹא כַבִּיר, Jb 31:25 ובי כביר מצאה ידי had gotten much.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 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: like (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 10:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.13/#tree)

כִּ֣י אָמַ֗ר בְּכֹ֤חַ יָדִי֙ עָשִׂ֔יתִי וּבְחָכְמָתִ֖י כִּ֣י נְבֻנ֑וֹתִי וְאָסִ֣יר ׀ גְּבוּלֹ֣ת עַמִּ֗ים וַעֲתוּדֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙ שׁוֹשֵׂ֔תִי וְאוֹרִ֥יד כַּאבִּ֖יר יוֹשְׁבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he.has.said by the.strength my.hand my I.have.acted and by skill my (dm) I.have.understanding and I.have.removed \[the\].borders of.peoples and their provisions I.have.plundered and I.have.brought.down like a.mighty.\[man\] \[those.who\].sit

*JPS 1917:* For he hath said: by the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I am prudent; in that I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and have brought down as one mighty the inhabitants;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b7_5bc_5d1_5b4_5bc_5d9_5e8/): 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).