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title: כִּבְרָה — distance · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כִּבְרָה (3530), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: distance. BDB 1906: n.f. distance. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כִּבְרָה

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«כִּבְרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **distance** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 3530 · **BDB:** כִּבְרָה

### Glosses

a.distance (2); (the).distance (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

distance [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3530/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. distance [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3530/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. appar. distance, only in the phr. כִּבְרַת (ה)ארץ a distance of land or length of way, Gn 35:16 וַיְהִי עוֹד כ׳ ה׳ לָבוֹא אֶפְרָתָה, 48:7 בְּעוֹד כ׳ א׳ לָבֹא אֶפְרָתָה, 2 K 5:19 וַיֵּלֶךְ מֵאִתּוֹ כ׳ אָ֑רֶץ. The distance meant is uncertain, but from 2 K 5:19 it would seem to have been a short one; v. further Di Gn 35, 16 and Thes (Assyrian kibrâti is a (widely extended) territory, quarter of the world, etc., DlHWB 315; according to HoffmGGAbh.. xxxvi (1890), 23–25 perhaps the distance that one can see).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כִּבְרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3530/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 5:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.5.19/)

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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר ל֖וֹ לֵ֣ךְ לְשָׁל֑וֹם וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ מֵאִתּ֖וֹ כִּבְרַת־אָֽרֶץ׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.said to him go to peace and he.went from with him a.distance of.land

*JPS 1917:* And he said unto him: 'Go in peace.' So he departed from him some way.

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[Genesis 35:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.16/)

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וַיִּסְעוּ֙ מִבֵּ֣ית אֵ֔ל בֵּ֣ית אֵ֔ל וַֽיְהִי־ע֥וֹד כִּבְרַת־הָאָ֖רֶץ לָב֣וֹא אֶפְרָ֑תָה וַתֵּ֥לֶד רָחֵ֖ל וַתְּקַ֥שׁ בְּלִדְתָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.set.out from Bethel Bethel and it.was yet (the).distance of.(the) land to go Ephrathah and she.gave.birth Rachel and she.had.difficulties when she gave.birth

*JPS 1917:* And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.

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