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title: כָּבֵד — heavy · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּבֵד (3515), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 41 times: heavy. BDB 1906: adj. heavy. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּבֵד

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«כָּבֵד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **heavy** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 41 times · **Key:** 3515 · **BDB:** כָּבֵד²

### Glosses

heavy (18); massive (6); \[was\].heavy (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

heavy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3515/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. heavy [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3515/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. heavy;—כ׳ Gn 41:31 + 34 times; cstr. כְּבַד Ex 4:10(×2); כֶּ֫בֶד Is 1:4; pl. כְּבֵדִים Ex 17:12; cstr. כִּבְדֵי Ez 3:5, 6;— heavy, a burden ψ 38:5; hands (weary of holding up) Ex 17:12 (E), hair of head 2 S 14:26, a corpulent old man 1 S 4:18; עַם כֶבֶד עָוֹן Is 1:4 a people heavy with (the burden of) iniquity; a cloud charged with rain Ex 19:16 (E); a rock of large size Is 32:2; oppressive, grievous, burdensome, a yoke 1 K 12:4, 11 = 2 Ch 10:4, 11; a famine Gn 12:10; 41:31; 43:1; 47:4, 13 (J); the vexation (כַּעַם) of a fool Pr 27:3; vehement, sore, of a mourning Gn 50:11 (J). massive, abundant, numerous, of a people עַם Nu 20:20 (J) 1 K 3:9; army חיל 2 K 6:14; 18:17 = Is 36:2; insect swarm Ex 8:20 (J). heavy, dull of speech and tongue Ex 4:10(×2) (JE); of the לֵב, hard Ex 7:14 (J). burdensome, of a thing Ex 18:18 (E) people Nu 11:14 (J); of a people to be understood Ez 3:5, 6. in the usage of J כָּבֵד מְאֹד is frequent: very oppressive, grievous, of hail Ex 9 18:24; murrian Ex 9:3; lamentation Gn 50:10. very numerous, cattle Ex 12:38; army, מַחֲנֶה Gn 50:9; locusts Ex 10:14; so חַיִל 1 K 10:2 = 2 Ch 9:1. very rich, במקנה in cattle Gn 13:2.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 38 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּבֵד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3515/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 43:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.1/)

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וְהָרָעָ֖ב כָּבֵ֥ד בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and the famine \[was\].heavy in the land

*JPS 1917:* And the famine was sore in the land.

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[Psalms 38:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.5/)

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כִּ֣י עֲ֭וֺנֹתַי עָבְר֣וּ רֹאשִׁ֑י כְּמַשָּׂ֥א כָ֝בֵ֗ד יִכְבְּד֥וּ מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) iniquities my they.have.passed.over head my like a.burden heavy they.are.\[too\].heavy for me

*JPS 1917:* For mine iniquities are gone over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

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