Strong's Lexicon

H47

H47 — אַבִּיר

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

HebrewabbiyradjectiveOccurrences: 17TWOT: 13d

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H47
Word:	אַבִּיר
Part of Speech:	adjective
Etymology:	from H46
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	17
Transliteration:	abbiyr
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	ab-beer'
Meaning:	1. mighty (spoken of created beings
KJV Renderings:	angel, bull, chiefest, mighty (one), stout(-hearted), strong (one), valiant.

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אַבִּיר adjective mighty, valiant — ׳ א Job 34:20 + Isa 10:13 Kt ( Qr כַּבִּיר); construct id. 1Sam 21:8 plural אַכִּירִים Job 24:22 +; — mighty (always = substantive & in poetry except 1Sam 21:8).

1. men Job 24:22 (= violent) Job 34:20; 1Sam 21:8 (read הָרָצִים ׳ א Gr Dr, compare 1Sam 22:17 but Lag^Probebibel אֹבִיל הָעֲיָרִים see Id.^{BN 45}; Klo גִּבּוֺר), Lam 1:15 אַבִּירֵי לֵב stout of heart Isa 46:12 (= obstinate) Ps 76:6.

2. angels Ps 78:25 (compare Ps 103:20).

3. animals; bull, simile of king of Assyrian Isa 10:13 (read כְּאַבִּיר & see Di); elsewhere plural; metaphor for enemies אַבִּירֵי בָשָׁן) Ps 22:13 (|| פּרים); for princes Ps 68:31 for Edomites Isa 34:7 hence even as sacrificial Ps 50:13 (|| עַתּוּדִים); of horses Jer 8:16; Jer 47:3; Jer 50:11.

Judg 5:22; Jer 46:15 (but Jer 46:15 many MSS. ᵐ5 Aq Symm Theod ᵑ9 many moderns read אַבִּירֶ֑ךָ thy bull, i.e. Apis).

אַבְרָהָם see אַבְרָם below II. אבה.

Other Resources

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

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

אביר (ab-beer’)

Judges 5:22

KJV: Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.pransings: or, tramplings, or, plungings

EHCC: pransings of their (lit. bis; mighty ones.

Job 24:22

KJV: He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.no…: or, he trusteth not his own life

EHCC: He draweth also the mighty with his

Job 50:13

EHCC: Will I eat ie ech of bulls, or drink

Job 76:5

EHCC: (6). The stowthearted are spoiled,

Job 78:25

EHCC: Man did eac angels’ food: (marg. the

Jeremiah 8:16

KJV: The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.all…: Heb. the fulness thereof

EHCC: sound of the neighi of Ais strong ones ;

Jeremiah 3:0

EHCC: f 1 booty of his strong horses), :47

Jeremiah 50:11

KJV: Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;fat: Heb. big, or, corpulentbellow…: or, neigh as steeds

EHCC: as the heifer at grassy and bellow as bulls;

Lamentations 1:15

KJV: The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.the virgin…: or, the winepress of the virgin, etc

EHCC: trodden under foot all my mighty (men)

Genesis 49:34

EHCC: made strong by the hands of the mighty

Genesis 49:26

KJV: The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

EHCC: & 60:16. thy Redeemer, the mighty One of