כְּבָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3528

already — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

already tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּבָר: adv. already tree →

The whole BDB entry

adv. (late) already (freq. in Mish. and NH; 𝔗 כבר (rare) Syriac ܟܒܰܪ usually perhaps, occas. already (Mt 11:21 Heb 1:1); Mand. כבאר already, NöM. p. 202. Der. uncertain, connexion with √ כבר being dub.)—already, Ec 1:10 כְּבָר הָיָה it hath already been, 2:12, 16; 3:15(×2); 4:2; 6:10; 9:6, 7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: already (8); [has been] already (1).

In the verses

Ecclesiastes 3:15 · tree →

מַה־שֶּֽׁהָיָה֙ כְּבָ֣ר ה֔וּא וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר לִהְי֖וֹת כְּבָ֣ר הָיָ֑ה וְהָאֱלֹהִ֖ים יְבַקֵּ֥שׁ אֶת־נִרְדָּֽף׃

Word for word: whatever (that).it is [has.been].already it and.[that] which [is].to be already it.has.been and (the) God he.will.seek (et) [that.which.was].pursued

JPS 1917: That which is hath been long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and God seeketh that which is pursued.

Ecclesiastes 4:2 · tree →

וְשַׁבֵּ֧חַ אֲנִ֛י אֶת־הַמֵּתִ֖ים שֶׁכְּבָ֣ר מֵ֑תוּ מִן־הַ֣חַיִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֛ר הֵ֥מָּה חַיִּ֖ים עֲדֶֽנָה׃

Word for word: and I.commended I (et) the.dead [people] who already they.had.died more.than the living who they [were].alive pleasure still

JPS 1917: Wherefore I praised the dead that are already dead more than the living that are yet alive;

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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