Heaviness
כֹּ֫בֶדStrong’s H3514koved (ko-ved)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Koved is the Hebrew word usually translated “heaviness of” and “weight of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.”
Meaning
- Weight, heaviness, mass, greatheaviness, weight · mass, abundance · vehemence, heaviness
How it's translated
- heaviness of 1
- weight of 1
- and heaviness of 1
- and weight of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Proverbs 1
- Nahum 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 21:15For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
- Isaiah 30:27Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
- Nahum 3:3The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
Hebrew dictionary
כֹּ֫בֶד koved · heaviness
1) weight, heaviness, mass, great 1a) heaviness, weight 1b) mass, abundance 1c) vehemence, heaviness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “heaviness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEAV'INESS, noun
hev'iness. Weight; ponderousness; gravity; the quality of being heavy; as the heaviness of a body.
- Sadness; sorrow; dejection of mind; depression of spirits.“Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop” Proverbs 12:25“Ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations” 1 Peter 1:6
- Sluggishness; torpidness; dullness of spirit; languidness; languor; lassitude.
- Weight; burden; oppression; as, the heaviness of taxes.
- That which it requires great strength to move or overcome; that which creates labor and difficulty; as the heaviness of a draught.
All definitions
- Thickness; moistness; deepness; as the heaviness of ground or soil.
- Thickness; moistness; as of air.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.