Strong's Lexicon

H3528

H3528 — כְּבָר

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

HebrewkbaradverbOccurrences: 9TWOT: 947c

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H3528
Word:	כְּבָר
Part of Speech:	adverb
Etymology:	from H3527
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	9
Transliteration:	kbar
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	keb-awr'
Meaning:	1. (properly) extent of time, i.e. a great while 2. (hence) long ago, formerly, hitherto
KJV Renderings:	already, (seeing that which), now.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB3902

I. כְּבָר adverb (late) already (frequently in Mishna and Late Hebrew; ᵑ7 כבר (rare); Syriac [untranscribed source text 2433] usually perhaps, occas. already (Matt 11:21; Heb 10:2); Mandean כבאר already, Nö^{M. p. 202. Der. uncertain, connection} with √ כבר being dubious) — already, Eccl 1:10 כְּבָר הָיָה it hath already been, Eccl 2:12; Eccl 2:16; Eccl 3:15 (twice in verse); Eccl 4:2; Eccl 6:10; Eccl 9:6; Eccl 9:7.

Other Resources

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

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

כבר (k’vahr)

Ecclesiastes 1:10

KJV: Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

EHCC: it hath been of old time,

Ecclesiastes 2:12

KJV: And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.even…: or, in those things which have been already done

EHCC: (even) reer heh kath Lees obttady done.

Ecclesiastes 3:15

KJV: That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.that which is past: Heb. that which is driven away

EHCC: That which hath been is now; and that

Ecclesiastes 4:2

KJV: Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

EHCC: the dead which are already

Ecclesiastes 6:10

KJV: That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

EHCC: That which bath been is named already,

Ecclesiastes 9:6

KJV: Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

EHCC: their envy, is now perished ;