Mighty
כַּבִּירStrong’s H3524kabbir (kab-bir)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kabbir is the Hebrew word usually translated “mighty”, “old” and “much”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?”
Meaning
- Mighty, great, powerful, many, much
How it's translated
- mighty 8
- old 1
- much 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 6
- Isaiah 3
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 15:10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
- Job 31:25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
- Job 34:17Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
- Job 34:24He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
- Job 36:5Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
- Isaiah 16:14But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
Hebrew dictionary
כַּבִּיר kabbir · mighty
mighty, great, powerful, many, much
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mighty” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MI'GHTY, adjective
Having great bodily strength or physical power; very strong or vigorous; as a mighty arm.
- Very strong; valiant; bold; as a mighty man of valor. Judges 6:12
- Very powerful; having great command.“Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth” Genesis 10:8
- Very strong in numbers; as a mighty nation. Genesis 18:18
- Very strong or great in corporeal power; very able.“Wo to them that are mighty to drink wine” Isaiah 5:22
All definitions and other forms of “mighty”
- Violent; very loud; as mighty thunderings. Exodus 9:28Psalms 68:33
- Vehement; rushing with violence; as a mighty wind or tempest. Exodus 10:19Revelation 6:13
- Very great; vast; as mighty waters. Nehemiah 9:11
- Very great or strong; as mighty power. 2 Chronicles 26:12
- Very forcible; efficacious; as, great is truth and mighty
- Very great or eminent in intellect or acquirements; as the mighty Scaliger and Selden.
- Great; wonderful; performed with great power; as mighty works. Matthew 11:20
- Very severe and distressing; as a mighty famine. Luke 15:14
- Very great, large or populous; as a mighty city. Revelation 18:10
- Important; momentous.
MI'GHTY, adverb
In a great degree; very; as might wise; mighty thoughtful. [Colloquial.]
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.