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# כַּבִּיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3524

**great** — used 10 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

great [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3524/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּבִּיר: adj. great, mighty, much [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3524/#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 agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 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: mighty (4); \[is\] mighty (1); \[one\] old (1).

## In the verses

[Job 34:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.24/#tree)

יָרֹ֣עַ כַּבִּירִ֣ים לֹא־חֵ֑קֶר וַיַּעֲמֵ֖ד אֲחֵרִ֣ים תַּחְתָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* he.breaks mighty.\[ones\] not searching and he.appointed others in place.of.them

*JPS 1917:* He breaketh in pieces mighty men without inquisition, and setteth others in their stead.

[Job 36:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.5/#tree)

הֶן־אֵ֣ל כַּ֭בִּיר וְלֹ֣א יִמְאָ֑ס כַּ֝בִּ֗יר כֹּ֣חַֽ לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* there! God \[is\].mighty and not he.rejects mighty strength of.heart

*JPS 1917:* Behold, God is mighty, yet He despiseth not any; He is mighty in strength of understanding.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3524.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3524/): 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).