Liver
כָּבֵדStrong’s H3516kaved (ka-ved)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kaved is the Hebrew word usually translated “liver”, “liver his” and “liver my”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.”
Meaning
- The liverthe liver (as the heaviest organ)
How it's translated
- the liver 11
- liver his 1
- liver my 1
- at the liver 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 9
- Exodus 2
- Proverbs 1
- Lamentations 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:22Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:
- Leviticus 3:4And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
- Leviticus 3:10And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
- Leviticus 3:15And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
- Leviticus 4:9And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away,
- Leviticus 7:4And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:
Hebrew dictionary
כָּבֵד kaved · liver
1) the liver 1a) the liver (as the heaviest organ)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “liver” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIV'ER, noun
One who lives.
All definitions and other forms of “liver”
LIV'ER, noun
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.