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title: כְּבֵדֻת — heaviness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּבֵדֻת (3517), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: heaviness. BDB 1906: n.f. heaviness. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּבֵדֻת

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«כְּבֵדֻת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **heaviness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3517 · **BDB:** כְּבֵדֻת

### Glosses

difficulty (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

heaviness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3517/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. heaviness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3517/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. heaviness, וַיְנַהֲגֵהוּ בִּכ׳ Ex 14:25 (J) and they drave them with heaviness (difficulty).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּבֵדֻת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3517/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 14:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.14.25/)

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וַיָּ֗סַר אֵ֚ת אֹפַ֣ן מַרְכְּבֹתָ֔יו וַֽיְנַהֲגֵ֖הוּ בִּכְבֵדֻ֑ת וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מִצְרַ֗יִם אָנ֙וּסָה֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל כִּ֣י יְהוָ֔ה נִלְחָ֥ם לָהֶ֖ם בְּמִצְרָֽיִם

*Word for word:* and he.turned.aside (et) the.wheel\[s\] its.chariots his and he caused.it.to.drive with difficulty and it.said Egypt let.me.flee from before Israel (dm) Yahweh \[is\].fighting for them against Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them to drive heavily; so that the Egyptians said: 'Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.'

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