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# כִּבְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3530

**distance** — used 3 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

distance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3530/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּבְרָה: n.f. distance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3530/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. appar. distance, only in the phr. כִּבְרַת (ה)ארץ a distance of land or length of way, Gn 35:16 וַיְהִי עוֹד כ׳ ה׳ לָבוֹא אֶפְרָתָה, 48:7 בְּעוֹד כ׳ א׳ לָבֹא אֶפְרָתָה, 2 K 5:19 וַיֵּלֶךְ מֵאִתּוֹ כ׳ אָ֑רֶץ. The distance meant is uncertain, but from 2 K 5:19 it would seem to have been a short one; v. further Di Gn 35, 16 and Thes (Assyrian kibrâti is a (widely extended) territory, quarter of the world, etc., DlHWB 315; according to HoffmGGAbh.. xxxvi (1890), 23–25 perhaps the distance that one can see).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a distance (2); (the) distance (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 5:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.5.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.5.19/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר ל֖וֹ לֵ֣ךְ לְשָׁל֑וֹם וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ מֵאִתּ֖וֹ כִּבְרַת־אָֽרֶץ׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.said to him go to peace and he.went from with him a.distance of.land

*JPS 1917:* And he said unto him: 'Go in peace.' So he departed from him some way.

[Genesis 35:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.16/#tree)

וַיִּסְעוּ֙ מִבֵּ֣ית אֵ֔ל בֵּ֣ית אֵ֔ל וַֽיְהִי־ע֥וֹד כִּבְרַת־הָאָ֖רֶץ לָב֣וֹא אֶפְרָ֑תָה וַתֵּ֥לֶד רָחֵ֖ל וַתְּקַ֥שׁ בְּלִדְתָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Bethel Bethel and it.was yet (the).distance of.(the) land to go Ephrathah and she.gave.birth Rachel and she.had.difficulties when she gave.birth

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3530.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3530/): 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).