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STRONG'S HEBREW DICTIONARY

H3519

כָּבוֹד
You came here from“glory”

Strong numbering source: James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890).

Original wordכָּבוֹד
Transliterationkâbôwd
Pronunciation guidekaw-bode'

QUICK LEXICAL ENTRY

Definition

rarely כָּבֹד; from כָּבַד; properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness; glorious(-ly), glory, honour(-able).

BROWN–DRIVER–BRIGGS

Historical Hebrew lexicon

BDB supplies fuller lexical senses, grammatical notes, cognate material, and historical citations. A listed sense is not automatically the meaning of this word in every verse; context and grammar determine usage.

כָּבוֹד n.m. and f. abundance, honour, glory
abundance, riches
honour, splendor, glory, of external condition and circumstances
honour, dignity of position
honour, reputation, of character
my honour, poet. of the seat of honour in the inner man, the noblest part of man
honour, reverence, glory, as due to one or ascribed to one
glory as the object, of honour, reverence and glorifying

Source: Brown–Driver–Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Digital text and Strong-to-BDB mapping supplied by the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); underlying BDB text is public domain.

LEXICAL FAMILY

Root & related forms

These relationships are taken from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon lexical index. They are historical/lexical relationships encoded in that source; they do not mean that related words share the same sense in every context.

Indexed rootכָּבֵדkābēdbe heavy

Relationship source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, LexicalIndex.xml (CC BY 4.0).

CONCORDANCE

Where this word appears

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Source note

Strong numbering: James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890).

BDB: Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Digital text and Strong-to-BDB mapping: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project. Open Scriptures data files are CC BY 4.0; the underlying BDB text is public domain.

Lexical relationships: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project LexicalIndex.xml (CC BY 4.0). Root/derivative relationships are displayed only when explicitly encoded in that source; The Bible Directory does not infer etymology from spelling.

Method: KJV wording is displayed as the site translation. Public Hebrew links use the reviewed CrossWire KJV source-span alignment; Hebrew surface forms and morphology come from STEP Bible TAHOT. Translation alignment, lexical identity, and morphology are stored as separate data layers. Ambiguous alignments remain plain text rather than being guessed.