גִּבּוֹר
mighty
‘mighty’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1368 appears in the Book of 2 Samuel — 16 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Samuel
- 2 Samuel 1:19 גִבּוֹרִֽים adj Adjective mp Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How are the mighty fallen!
- 2 Samuel 1:21 גִּבּוֹרִ֔ים adj Adjective mp You mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain on you, neither fields of offerings: For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
- 2 Samuel 1:22 גִּבּוֹרִ֔ים adj Adjective mp From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan didn't turn back, The sword of Saul didn't return empty.
- 2 Samuel 1:25 גִבֹּרִ֔ים adj Adjective mp How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.
- 2 Samuel 1:27 גִבּוֹרִ֔ים adj Adjective mp How are the mighty fallen, The weapons of war perished!
- 2 Samuel 10:7 הַ/גִּבֹּרִֽים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
- 2 Samuel 16:6 הַ/גִּבֹּרִ֔ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
- 2 Samuel 17:8 גִבֹּרִ֣ים adj Adjective mp Hushai said moreover, You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, as a bear robbed of her cubs in the field; and your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
- 2 Samuel 17:10 גִבּ֣וֹר adj Adjective ms Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.
- 2 Samuel 20:7 הַ/גִּבֹּרִ֑ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp There went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 2 Samuel 22:26 גִּבּ֥וֹר adj Adjective ms With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect;
- 2 Samuel 23:8 הַ/גִּבֹּרִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred slain at one time.
- 2 Samuel 23:9 גברים הַ/גִּבֹּרִ֜ים adj Adjective mp ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.
- 2 Samuel 23:16 הַ/גִּבֹּרִ֜ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp The three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.
- 2 Samuel 23:17 הַ/גִּבֹּרִֽים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp He said, Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this: [shall I drink] the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
- 2 Samuel 23:22 הַ/גִּבֹּרִֽים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
גבור — transliterated gibbôwr — is a Hebrew word carrying the sense “mighty.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “mighty” in the King James Version, “warriors” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 151 verses across 29 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its common vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 6:4. BDB distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 151-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1368 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 151
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 151 distinct verses.
- 29 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 29 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #288
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 288 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 151 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 29 verses 19%
- Jeremiah 18 verses 12%
- 2 Samuel 16 verses 11%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 151 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 83 verses · 55%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 64 verses · 42%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 3%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Mighty 33×, Mighty men 33×, Mighty man 12×
- American Standard Version: Mighty men 36×, Mighty 29×, Mighty man 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mighty men 49×, Mighty 36×, Warriors 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Warriors 27×, Mighty 25×, Warriors of 23×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1368 across 158 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 54 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1368 across 156 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 54 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1368 across 156 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 28 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1368 across 157 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- strong, mighty (adjective)
- strong man, brave man, mighty man (noun masculine)
Word origin
גִּבּוֹר 159 adj. strong, mighty
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גבר (gâbar) (H1396) — to be strong.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
גִּבּוֹר
- strong, brave, mighty; hero. Ned. 38ᵃ על ג׳ on a strong man; Sabb. 92ᵃ. Ab. IV, 1 איזהו ג׳ who is a hero?; Tam. 32ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. גִּבּוֹרִים. Gen. R. s. 37 פלשתים ג׳ Philisteans which means giants, opp. ננסים. Sot. 42ᵇ ד׳ ג׳ four (Philistean) heroes; a. e.
גבור
- , Meg. 18ᵃ, v. נְבוּר
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 89 distinct written forms H1368 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 29 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1368, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 135 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 151 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 6:4
- Deuteronomy 10:17
- Joshua 1:14
- Judges 5:13
- Ruth 2:1
- 1 Samuel 2:4
- 2 Samuel 1:19
- 1 Kings 1:8
- 2 Kings 5:1
- 1 Chronicles 1:10
- 2 Chronicles 13:3
- Ezra 7:28
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
