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To multiply

כָּבַרStrong’s H3527

kavar (ka-var)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Kavar is the Hebrew word usually translated “multiplies”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.”
Job 35:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. To be much, be many, be in abundance, intertwine, multiply(Hiphil) to make many, make great
How it's translated
  • he multiplies 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Job 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    כָּבַר kavar · to multiply

    1) to be much, be many, be in abundance, intertwine, multiply 1a) (Hiphil) to make many, make great

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “multiply” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    MUL'TIPLY, verb transitive

    [Latin multiplico; multus, many, and plico, to fold or double.]

    1. To increase in number; to make more by natural generation or production, or by addition; as, to multiply men, horses or other animals; to multiply evils.“I will multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt” Exodus 7:3
    2. In arithmetic, to increase any given number as many times as there are units in any other given number.
    All definitions and other forms of “multiply”

      MUL'TIPLY, verb intransitive

      To grow or increase in number.

      1. “Be fruitful and multiply” Genesis 1:22“When men began to multiply on the face of the earth” Genesis 6:1
      2. To increase in extent; to extend; to spread.“The word of God grew and multiplied” Acts 12:24

      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.