Kâbad — H3513

H3513 · Hebrew — כבד

Pronunciation: kaw-bad'

Other spellings: kâbêd כָּבֵד

Definition

verb

to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable; causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses)

  1. to be heavy, be weighty, be grievous, be hard, be rich, be honourable, be glorious, be burdensome, be honoured
    1. (Qal)
      1. to be heavy
      2. to be heavy, be insensible, be dull
      3. to be honoured
    2. (Niphal)
      1. to be made heavy, be honoured, enjoy honour, be made abundant
      2. to get oneself glory or honour, gain glory
    3. (Piel)
      1. to make heavy, make dull, make insensible
      2. to make honourable, honour, glorify
    4. (Pual) to be made honourable, be honoured
    5. (Hiphil)
      1. to make heavy
      2. to make heavy, make dull, make unresponsive
      3. to cause to be honoured
    6. (Hithpael)
      1. to make oneself heavy, make oneself dense, make oneself numerous
      2. to honour oneself

Usually translated as

heavy, glorify, glorious, sore, be chargeable, be heavier, more be laid, make self many, more grievously afflict, boast, be dim, glory, be grievous, harden, nobles, abounding with, be, great, lay heavily, honour, honourable, lade, prevail, promote, be rich, stop

Origin

or kâbêd; a primitive root

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

Kâbad occurs 107 times in 101 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (3), Exodus (9), Leviticus (1), Numbers (4), Deuteronomy (1), Judges (4), 1 Samuel (8), 2 Samuel (6), 1 Kings (2), 2 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (5), 2 Chronicles (3), Nehemiah (2), Job (4), Psalms (11), Proverbs (6), Isaiah (19), Jeremiah (1), Lamentations (2), Ezekiel (3), Daniel (1), Nahum (2), Habakkuk (1), Haggai (1), Zechariah (1)

Strong's Lexicon — K