כָּבֵד kaved

Hebrew word for “heavy” · Strong’s H3515 · used 41 times in 40 verses

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Meaning

1) heavy, great; 1a) heavy;

How it is translated

Glosses given for kaved in context, with how often each is used:

• heavy 27
• massive 6
• numerous 4
• too heavy 2
• wealthy 1
• will be heavy 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 50 (3), Exodus 9 (3), Genesis 47 (2), 1 Kings 12 (2), 2 Chronicles 10 (2), Ezekiel 3 (2), Genesis 12 (1), Genesis 13 (1), Genesis 41 (1), Genesis 43 (1)

Forms

• כבד 32
• וכבד 3
• הכבד 3
• וכבדי 2
• כבדים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kaved more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מְאֹד meod “much” 13
• רָעָב raav “famine” 5
• עֹל ol “yoke” 4
• מִצְרַיִם mitsrayim “Egypt” 7
• עַתָּה attah “now” 6
• חַיִל chayil “strength” 5
• אֶבֶן even “stone” 5
• שָׁלַח shalach “to send” 6
• גָּמָל gamal “camel” 3
• מִקְנֶה miqneh “livestock” 3
• עָמֵק ameq “unfathomable” 2
• אָטָד atad “bramble” 2

Key verses

The verses using kaved that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 12:10 — And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
• Genesis 13:2 — And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
• Genesis 50:10 — And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for…
• Exodus 4:10 — And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a…
• Exodus 19:16 — And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet…
• 1 Kings 3:9 — Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a…
• 2 Kings 18:17 — And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to…
• 2 Chronicles 9:1 — And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels…
• Psalms 38:4 — For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
• Proverbs 27:3 — A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
• Isaiah 1:4 — Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One…
• Isaiah 32:2 — And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.