Strong's Lexicon

H3524

H3524 — כַּבִּיר

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

HebrewkabbiyradjectiveOccurrences: 10TWOT: 947a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H3524
Word:	כַּבִּיר
Part of Speech:	adjective
Etymology:	from H3527
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	10
Transliteration:	kabbiyr
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	kab-beer'
Meaning:	1. vast, whether in extent (figuratively, of power, mighty 2. of time, aged), or in number, many
KJV Renderings:	+ feeble, mighty, most, much, strong, valiant.

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כַּבִּיר adjective great, mighty, much only in poetry, and only Job, Isa¹ : — Isa 10:13 Qr (but read as Kt כְּאַבִּיר), Isa 17:12 and Isa 28:2 מים כבירים (usually מַיִם רַבִּים), Job 8:2 ורוח כביר אמרי פיך a mighty wind, Job 15:10 כביר מאביך ימים (Ges^{«GKC:131»§ 131}, R 5a) = aged: of God, Job 34:17 כַּבִּיר צַדִּיק the just mighty one, Job 36:5 a, v^b כֹּחַ לֵב ׳ כ mighty in strength of understanding; Job 34:24 כבירים mighty men; of quantity = much, Isa 16:14 שְׁאָר מְעַט מִזְעָר לוֺא כַבִּיר, Job 31:25 וכי כביר מצאה ידי had gotten much.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

כביר (kab-beer’)

Job 8:2

KJV: How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

EHCC: thy mouth (be like) a strong wind?

Job 15:10

KJV: With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

EHCC: aged men, (es tle tory father.

Job 31:25

KJV: If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;gotten…: Heb. found much

EHCC: mine hand had gotten much ; |

Job 84:17

EHCC: him that is most just?

Isaiah 10:18

KJV: And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.both…: Heb. from the soul, and even to the flesh

EHCC: 1 have put down the inbabitants ג אג

Isaiah 16:14

KJV: But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.feeble: or, not many

EHCC: the remnant (shall be) very small -כ)

Isaiah 17:12

KJV: Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!multitude: or, noisemighty: or, many

EHCC: of mighty waters! (marg. or, waxy)

Isaiah 28:2

KJV: Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

EHCC: a8 8 hood of mighty waters