Heaviness
כְּבֵדֻתStrong’s H3517kevedut (ke-ve-dut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kevedut is the Hebrew word usually translated “difficulty”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.”
Meaning
- Heaviness, difficulty
How it's translated
- with difficulty 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
כְּבֵדֻת kevedut · heaviness
heaviness, difficulty
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.