גִּבּוֹר
mighty
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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.
65 distinct verses where H1368 appears in the Construct state, across 19 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Genesis 1 verse
Joshua 4 verses
- Joshua 1:14 גִּבּוֹרֵ֣י adj Adjective mp cs Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them;
- Joshua 6:2 גִּבּוֹרֵ֖י adj Adjective mp cs Yahweh said to Joshua, Behold, I have given into your hand Jericho, and the king of it, and the mighty men of valor.
- Joshua 8:3 גִּבּוֹרֵ֣י adj Adjective mp cs So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.
- Joshua 10:7 גִּבּוֹרֵ֥י adj Adjective mp cs So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
Judges 2 verses
- Judges 6:12 גִּבּ֥וֹר adj Adjective ms cs The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor.
- Judges 11:1 גִּבּ֣וֹר adj Adjective ms cs Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became the father of Jephthah.
Ruth 1 verse
1 Samuel 3 verses
- 1 Samuel 9:1 גִּבּ֖וֹר adj Adjective ms cs Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.
- 1 Samuel 16:18 וְ/גִבּ֨וֹר conj + Adjective Adjective ms cs Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him.
- 1 Samuel 17:51 גִּבּוֹרָ֖/ם adj Adjective ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath of it, and killed him, and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Kings 3 verses
- 2 Kings 5:1 גִּבּ֥וֹר adj Adjective ms cs Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, [but he was] a leper.
- 2 Kings 15:20 גִּבּוֹרֵ֣י adj Adjective mp cs Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn't stay there in the land.
- 2 Kings 24:14 גִּבּוֹרֵ֣י adj Adjective mp cs He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
1 Chronicles 20 verses
- 1 Chronicles 5:24 גִּבּ֣וֹרֵי adj Adjective mp cs These were the heads of their fathers' houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.
- 1 Chronicles 7:2 גִּבּ֥וֹרֵי adj Adjective mp cs The sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, [to wit], of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
- 1 Chronicles 7:5 גִּבּוֹרֵ֖י adj Adjective mp cs Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 7:7 גִּבּוֹרֵ֖י adj Adjective mp cs The sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor; and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.
- 1 Chronicles 7:9 גִּבּוֹרֵ֖י adj Adjective mp cs They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
- 1 Chronicles 7:11 גִּבּוֹרֵ֖י adj Adjective mp cs All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the host for war.
- 1 Chronicles 7:40 גִּבּוֹרֵ֣י adj Adjective mp cs All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
- 1 Chronicles 8:40 גִּבֹּרֵי adj Adjective mp cs The sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, one hundred fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.
- 1 Chronicles 9:13 גִּבּ֣וֹרֵי adj Adjective mp cs and their brothers, heads of their fathers' houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 9:26 גִּבֹּרֵ֣י adj Adjective mp cs for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 11:26 וְ/גִבּוֹרֵ֖י conj + Adjective Adjective mp cs Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
- 1 Chronicles 12:8 גִּבֹּרֵ֣י adj Adjective mp cs Of the Gadites there separated themselves to David to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes on the mountains;
- 1 Chronicles 12:21 גִבּ֥וֹרֵי adj Adjective mp cs They helped David against the band of rovers: for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the host.
- 1 Chronicles 12:25 גִּבּ֤וֹרֵי adj Adjective mp cs Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
- 1 Chronicles 12:28 גִּבּ֣וֹר adj Adjective ms cs and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty-two captains.
- 1 Chronicles 12:30 גִּבּ֣וֹרֵי adj Adjective mp cs Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.
- 1 Chronicles 26:6 גִבּ֥וֹרֵי adj Adjective mp cs Also to Shemaiah his son were sons born, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.
- 1 Chronicles 26:31 גִּבּ֥וֹרֵי adj Adjective mp cs Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers' [houses]. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Jazer of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 27:6 גִּבּ֥וֹר adj Adjective ms cs This is that Benaiah, who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and [of] his division was Ammizabad his son.
- 1 Chronicles 28:1 וְ/הַ/גִּבּוֹרִ֛ים גִּבּ֥וֹר conj + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp adj Adjective ms cs David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies who served the king by division, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 11 verses
- 2 Chronicles 13:3 גִּבּוֹרֵ֣י גִּבּ֥וֹר adj Adjective mp cs adj Adjective ms cs Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.
- 2 Chronicles 14:8 גִּבּ֥וֹרֵי adj Adjective mp cs Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two hundred eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of valor.
- 2 Chronicles 17:13 גִּבּ֥וֹרֵי adj Adjective mp cs He had many works in the cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 17:14 גִּבּ֣וֹרֵי adj Adjective mp cs This was the numbering of them according to their fathers' houses: Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand;
- 2 Chronicles 17:16 גִּבּ֥וֹר adj Adjective ms cs and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to Yahweh; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.
- 2 Chronicles 17:17 גִּבּ֥וֹר adj Adjective ms cs Of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
- 2 Chronicles 25:6 גִּבּ֥וֹר adj Adjective ms cs He hired also one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.
- 2 Chronicles 26:12 לְ/גִבּ֣וֹרֵי prep + Adjective Adjective mp cs The whole number of the heads of fathers' [houses], even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand and six hundred.
- 2 Chronicles 28:7 גִּבּ֣וֹר adj Adjective ms cs Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king.
- 2 Chronicles 32:3 וְ/גִבֹּרָ֔י/ו conj + Adjective Adjective mp cs + sfx pers 3ms he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city; and they helped him.
- 2 Chronicles 32:21 גִּבּ֥וֹר adj Adjective ms cs Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he was come into the house of his god, those who came forth from his own bowels killed him there with the sword.
Nehemiah 1 verse
Psalms 2 verses
- Psalms 24:8 וְ/גִבּ֑וֹר גִּבּ֥וֹר conj + Adjective Adjective ms adj Adjective ms cs Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.
- Psalms 103:20 גִּבֹּ֣רֵי adj Adjective mp cs Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, Who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, Obeying the voice of his word.
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 13:3 גִבּוֹרַ/י֙ adj Adjective mp cs + sfx pers 1cs I have commanded my consecrated ones, yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
- Isaiah 21:17 גִּבּוֹרֵ֥י adj Adjective mp cs and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.
Jeremiah 8 verses
- Jeremiah 26:21 גִּבּוֹרָ֤י/ו adj Adjective mp cs + sfx pers 3ms and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:
- Jeremiah 46:5 וְ/גִבּוֹרֵי/הֶ֣ם conj + Adjective Adjective mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 48:41 גִּבּוֹרֵ֤י adj Adjective mp cs Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
- Jeremiah 49:22 גִּבּוֹרֵ֤י adj Adjective mp cs Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
- Jeremiah 50:36 גִּבּוֹרֶ֖י/הָ adj Adjective mp cs + sfx pers 3fs A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
- Jeremiah 51:30 גִבּוֹרֵ֨י adj Adjective mp cs The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.
- Jeremiah 51:56 גִּבּוֹרֶ֔י/הָ adj Adjective mp cs + sfx pers 3fs for the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.
- Jeremiah 51:57 וְ/גִבּוֹרֶ֔י/הָ conj + Adjective Adjective mp cs + sfx pers 3fs I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Hosts.
Hosea 1 verse
Joel 1 verse
Obadiah 1 verse
Nahum 1 verse
Zechariah 1 verse
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.
