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title: כָּבִיר — netted · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּבִיר (3523), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: netted. BDB 1906: quilt fly-net. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּבִיר

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«כָּבִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **netted** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 3523 · **BDB:** כָּבִיר

### Glosses

(the).quilt (1); the.quilt (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

netted [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3523/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

quilt fly-net [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3523/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] prob. something netted, i.e. either a quilt or (EwH 3. 77 Ke) a fly-net (κωνωπεῖον) spread over the face while a person was asleep; 1 S 19:13, 16 כְּבִיר הָעִזִּים a quilt (or fly-net) of goats(’ hair). Vid. further Drad loc.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּבִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3523/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 19:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.16/)

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וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ הַמַּלְאָכִ֔ים וְהִנֵּ֥ה הַתְּרָפִ֖ים אֶל־הַמִּטָּ֑ה וּכְבִ֥יר הָעִזִּ֖ים מְרַאֲשֹׁתָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and they.came the messengers and there! the teraphim \[was\].to the bed and the.quilt of.(the) goat.hair(s) place.of.its.head \[was\].the

*JPS 1917:* And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the quilt of goats' hair at the head thereof.

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[1 Samuel 19:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.13/)

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וַתִּקַּ֨ח מִיכַ֜ל אֶת־הַתְּרָפִ֗ים וַתָּ֙שֶׂם֙ אֶל־הַמִּטָּ֔ה וְאֵת֙ כְּבִ֣יר הָֽעִזִּ֔ים שָׂ֖מָה מְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֑יו וַתְּכַ֖ס בַּבָּֽגֶד׃ס

*Word for word:* and she.took Michal (et) the teraphim and she.put.\[it\] into the bed and (et) (the).quilt of.(the) goat.hair(s) she.put of.its.head the.place and she.covered.\[it\] with the garment

*JPS 1917:* And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a quilt of goats' hair at the head thereof, and covered it with a cloth.

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