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# כְּבָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3528

**already** — used 9 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

already [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3528/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּבָר: adv. already [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3528/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. (late) already (freq. in Mish. and NH; 𝔗 כבר (rare) Syriac ܟܒܰܪ usually perhaps, occas. already (Mt 11:21 Heb 1:1); Mand. כבאר already, NöM. p. 202. Der. uncertain, connexion with √ כבר being dub.)—already, Ec 1:10 כְּבָר הָיָה it hath already been, 2:12, 16; 3:15(×2); 4:2; 6:10; 9:6, 7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: already (8); \[has been\] already (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 3:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.15/#tree)

מַה־שֶּֽׁהָיָה֙ כְּבָ֣ר ה֔וּא וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר לִהְי֖וֹת כְּבָ֣ר הָיָ֑ה וְהָאֱלֹהִ֖ים יְבַקֵּ֥שׁ אֶת־נִרְדָּֽף׃

*Word for word:* whatever (that).it is \[has.been\].already it and.\[that\] which \[is\].to be already it.has.been and (the) God he.will.seek (et) \[that.which.was\].pursued

*JPS 1917:* That which is hath been long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and God seeketh that which is pursued.

[Ecclesiastes 4:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.2/#tree)

וְשַׁבֵּ֧חַ אֲנִ֛י אֶת־הַמֵּתִ֖ים שֶׁכְּבָ֣ר מֵ֑תוּ מִן־הַ֣חַיִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֛ר הֵ֥מָּה חַיִּ֖ים עֲדֶֽנָה׃

*Word for word:* and I.commended I (et) the.dead \[people\] who already they.had.died more.than the living who they \[were\].alive pleasure still

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore I praised the dead that are already dead more than the living that are yet alive;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3528.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3528/): 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).