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Strong's #3513: kabad (pronounced kaw-bad')

or kabed {kaw-bade'}; a primitive root; 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):--abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, X be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, X more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּ / ּ

kâbad / kâbêd

1) to be heavy, be weighty, be grievous, be hard, be rich, be honourable, be glorious, be burdensome, be honoured

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be heavy

1a2) to be heavy, be insensible, be dull

1a3) to be honoured

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be made heavy, be honoured, enjoy honour, be made abundant

1b2) to get oneself glory or honour, gain glory

1c) (Piel)

1c1) to make heavy, make dull, make insensible

1c2) to make honourable, honour, glorify

1d) (Pual) to be made honourable, be honoured

1e) (Hiphil)

1e1) to make heavy

1e2) to make heavy, make dull, make unresponsive

1e3) to cause to be honoured

1f) (Hithpael)

1f1) to make oneself heavy, make oneself dense, make oneself numerous

1f2) to honour oneself

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 114 times:

1 Chronicles 11:25: "Behold, he was honorable among the thirty, but attained not to"
1 Chronicles 19:3: "to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honor thy father, he hath sent"
2 Chronicles 10:10: "unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter"
2 Chronicles 10:14: "them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I"
2 Chronicles 25:19: "the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now why"
Nehemiah 5:15: "governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of"
Nehemiah 5:18: "I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people."
Job 6:3: "For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore"
Job 14:21: "His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them."
Job 23:2: "is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning."
Job 33:7: "make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon"
Psalms 15:4: "In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoreth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt,"
Psalms 22:23: "him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed"
Psalms 32:4: "day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought"
Psalms 38:4: "mine head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for"
Psalms 50:15: "me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify"
Psalms 50:23: "Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God."
Psalms 86:9: "and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name."
Psalms 86:12: "my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name forevermore."
Psalms 87:3: " Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah."
Psalms 91:15: "will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor"
Psalms 149:8: "To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;"
Proverbs 3:9: " Honor the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all"
Proverbs 4:8: "Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace"
Proverbs 8:24: "I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water."
Proverbs 12:9: "He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoreth himself, than he that honoreth himself, and lacketh bread."
Proverbs 13:18: "instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honored."
Proverbs 14:31: "the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoreth him hath mercy on the poor."
Proverbs 27:18: "the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored."
Isaiah 3:5: "shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable."
Isaiah 6:10: "people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see"
Isaiah 9:1: "of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan,"
Isaiah 23:8: "city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable"
Isaiah 23:9: "glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable"
Isaiah 24:15: "Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God"
Isaiah 24:20: "like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not"
Isaiah 25:3: "Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations"
Isaiah 26:15: "O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth."
Isaiah 29:13: "people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far"
Isaiah 43:4: "Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give"
Isaiah 43:20: "The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls: because I give"
Isaiah 43:23: "me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honored me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering,"
Isaiah 47:6: "the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke."
Isaiah 49:5: "to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD,"
Isaiah 58:13: "the sabbath the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing"
Isaiah 58:13: "the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways,"
Isaiah 59:1: "that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:"
Isaiah 60:13: "and I will make the place of my feet glorious."
Isaiah 66:5: "for my name's sake, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they"
Jeremiah 30:19: "and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not"









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