כַּבִּיר
mighty
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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 7 times (70%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 3 times (30%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3524 appears — 9 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Job 6 verses
- Job 8:2 כַּ֝בִּיר adj Adjective ms "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
- Job 15:10 כַּבִּ֖יר adj Adjective ms With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than your father.
- Job 31:25 כַ֝בִּ֗יר adj Adjective ms If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;
- Job 34:17 כַּבִּ֣יר adj Adjective ms Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?--
- Job 34:24 כַּבִּירִ֣ים adj Adjective mp He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And sets others in their place.
- Job 36:5 כַּ֭בִּיר כַּ֝בִּ֗יר adj Adjective ms adj Adjective ms "Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
Isaiah 3 verses
- Isaiah 16:14 כַבִּֽיר adj Adjective ms But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no account.
- Isaiah 17:12 כַּבִּירִ֖ים adj Adjective mp Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
- Isaiah 28:2 כַּבִּירִ֥ים adj Adjective mp Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.
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.
The Hebrew adjective כביר centers on the idea of “mighty.” The word gravitates to Job (67%), then Isaiah. It turns up in 9 verses across 2 books, an uncommon footprint. First canonically at Job 8:2, it enters the text early. It clusters with כבר, כביר and כבר under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3524 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
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 9 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 67%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 33%
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 2×
- American Standard Version: Mighty 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mighty 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Mighty 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3524 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3524 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 H3524 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3524 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 1 sense 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.
- mighty, great, powerful, many, much
Word origin
adj. great, mighty, much, only poet., and only Jb Is 1:—Is 10:13 Qr (but read as Kt כְּאַבִּיר), 17:22 and 28:2 מים כבירים (usually מַיִם רַבִּים), Jb 8:2 ורוח כביר אמרי פיך a mighty wind, 15:10 כביר מאביך ימים (Ges§131, R 5 a) = aged: of God, 34:17 צַדִּיק כַּבִּיר the just mighty one, 36:5 a, v b כ׳ כֹּחַ לֵב mighty in strength of understanding; 34:24 כבירים mighty men; of quantity = much, Is 16:14 שְׁאָר מְעַט מִזְעָר לוֹא כַבִּיר, Jb 31:25 ובי כביר מצאה ידי had gotten much.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from כבר (kâbar) (H3527) — to multiply.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H3524 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כַ֝בִּ֗יר | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 31:25 | 1 |
| כַבִּֽיר | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 16:14 | 1 |
| כַּ֝בִּ֗יר | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 36:5 | 1 |
| כַּ֝בִּיר | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 8:2 | 1 |
| כַּ֭בִּיר | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 36:5 | 1 |
| כַּבִּ֖יר | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 15:10 | 1 |
| כַּבִּ֣יר | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 34:17 | 1 |
| כַּבִּירִ֖ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 17:12 | 1 |
| כַּבִּירִ֣ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Job 34:24 | 1 |
| כַּבִּירִ֥ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 28:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3524, 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
- כביר kᵉbîyr H3523 net
- כבר kᵉbâr H3528 already
- כברה kᵉbârâh H3531 sieve
- מכביר makbîyr H4342 abundance
- מכבר makbêr H4345 lattice
- מכבר makbâr H4346 netted cloth
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 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
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.
