STRONGS NUMBER H3527


Word Summary
kabar: to be much or many
Original Word: כָּבַר
Transliteration: kabar
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-bar')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be much or many
Meaning: to plait together, to augment
Strong's Concordance
in abundance, multiply

A primitive root; properly, to plait together, i.e. (figuratively) to augment (especially in number or quantity, to accumulate) -- in abundance, multiply.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3527. kabar

I. [כָּבַר‎] verb be much, many (Assyrian kabâru, be great, mighty; kabru, great, huge; Arabic be great, in body, rank, or age, great, noble, aged; Ethiopic be honoured, magnified; honoured, glorious; Sabean epithet כבר‎ HalEt. Sab. JAs Dec. 1874, No. 90; Syriac , for Hebrew הִרְבָּה רָבָה,‎, (rare) much; Zinjirli be abundant, numerous) —

Hiph`il (only Elihu) make many, Job 35:16 יַכְבִּר מִלִּין דַעַת בִּבְלִי‎ (compare אֲמָרָיו וְיֶרֶב34:37) > make great, BuBeitr. 138, comparing 8:2; מַכְבִּיר‎ with the force of a substantive (Ew§ 160 c) 36:31 אכל יתן לְמַכְֶבִּיר‎ giveth food in abundance (= prose לָרֹב‎, e.g. 2 Chronicles 11:23).