gibor · mighty one, mighty man

What it means

gibor (גִּבּוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mighty one, mighty man”.

Strong, valiant; a mighty man, an outstanding warrior.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Strong, of great power, also YHWH.
2. A brave warrior, or a capable man.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Strong, valiant; an outstanding warrior. BDB: strong, mighty. From the same root come גְּבוּרָה, “might, strength” (H1369), and גֶּבֶר, man (H1397).

• The mighty men of old; Nimrod Genesis 6:4Genesis 10:9
• David's mighty men 2 Samuel 23:8
• “How the mighty have fallen” 2 Samuel 1:25
• YHWH, “strong and mighty” Psalms 24:8Zephaniah 3:17
• Boaz, “a man mighty {and} of worth” Ruth 2:1

How we translate it

“Mighty men” 76 times, “mighty” 71, “valiant” 4, “warrior” 3, “warriors” 1. This edition's glossary sets “mighty one, mighty man”; גִּבּוֹר הֶחָיִל and גִּבּוֹרֵי הַחַיִל, when חַיִל is the capacity for war, are “mighty man of valor” and “mighty men of valor”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• mighty men ×76
• mighty ×71
• valiant ×4
• warrior ×3
• men ×2
• very capable men ×2
• warriors ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×5
• Judges×4
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×5
• 2 Samuel×16
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×31
• 2 Chronicles×12
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×3
• Job×1
• Psalms×12
• Proverbs×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×3
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×19
• Ezekiel×6
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×1
• Joel×4
• Amos×2
• Obadiah×1
• Nahum×1
• Zephaniah×2
• Zechariah×3

• Genesis 6:4

  The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of Elohim went in to the daughters of human beings and they bore children to them; they were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

• Genesis 10:8

  And Cush fathered Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.

• Genesis 10:9

  He was a mighty hunter before YHWH; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before YHWH.”

• Deuteronomy 10:17

  For YHWH your Elohim, he is Elohim of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and fearsome El, who does not show favoritism and does not take a bribe.

• Joshua 1:14

  Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall live in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but you shall cross in battle formation before your brothers, all the mighty warriors, and help them,

• Joshua 6:2

  YHWH said to Joshua, “See, I have given into your hand Jericho and its king, its mighty warriors.

• Joshua 8:3

  So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand men, mighty warriors, and sent them out by night.

• Joshua 10:2

  they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the cities of the kingdom, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty men.

• Joshua 10:7

  So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty warriors.

• Judges 5:13

  Then the survivor went down toward the nobles; the people of YHWH went down for me against the mighty men.

• Judges 5:23

  ‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of YHWH, ‘surely curse its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of YHWH, to the help of YHWH against the mighty men.’

• Judges 6:12

  The angel of YHWH appeared to him and said to him, “YHWH is with you, valiant warrior.”

• Judges 11:1

  Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant warrior, and he was the son of a woman, a prostitute; and Gilead fathered Jephthah.

• Ruth 2:1

  Now Naomi had a relative of her husband, a man mighty and of worth, of the clan of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

• 1 Samuel 2:4

  The bow of the mighty is broken, and those who stumbled have girded on strength.

• 1 Samuel 9:1

  There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, son of a Benjaminite, a mighty man of worth.

• 1 Samuel 14:52

  The war was fierce against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man or any valiant man, he gathered him to himself.

• 1 Samuel 16:18

  One of the young men answered and said, “Look, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who knows how to play, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and discerning in speech, and a man of fine figure; and YHWH is with him.”

• 1 Samuel 17:51

  David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it from its sheath and put him to death and cut off with it his head. The Philistines saw that their mighty man was dead, and they fled.

• 2 Samuel 1:19

  “The beauty, O Israel, lies slain on your high places. How the mighty have fallen!

• 2 Samuel 1:21

  Mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew and no rain on you, nor fields of contributions; for there the shield of the mighty was abhorred, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

• 2 Samuel 1:22

  From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not turn back, and the sword of Saul did not return empty.

• 2 Samuel 1:25

  How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan lies slain on your high places.

• 2 Samuel 1:27

  How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”

• 2 Samuel 10:7

  When David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army, the mighty men.

• 2 Samuel 16:6

  He threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right and on his left.

• 2 Samuel 17:8

  And Hushai said, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are bitter of soul, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. And your father is a man of war, and he will not spend the night with the people.

• 2 Samuel 17:10

  And even he, the valiant man whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and valiant men are those who are with him.

• 2 Samuel 20:7

  So there went out after him Joab’s men and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the mighty men; they went out from Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri.

• 2 Samuel 22:26

  With the faithful you show yourself faithful; with the blameless mighty man you show yourself blameless;

• 2 Samuel 23:8

  These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth, a Tahchemonite, head of the captains; he was Adino the Eznite; he was against eight hundred slain at one time.

• 2 Samuel 23:9

  After him was Eleazar son of Dodo, son of an Ahohite, among the three mighty men with David when they taunted the Philistines who had gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew.

• 2 Samuel 23:16

  The three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate, and they carried it and brought it to David; but he was not willing to drink it, and he poured it out as a libation to YHWH.

• 2 Samuel 23:17

  He said, “Far be it from me, YHWH, to do this! Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?” And he was not willing to drink it. These things the three mighty men did.

• 2 Samuel 23:22

  These things Benaiah son of Jehoiada did, and he had a name among the three mighty men.

• 1 Kings 1:8

  But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David were not with Adonijah.

• 1 Kings 1:10

  But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother he did not invite.

• 1 Kings 11:28

  And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of worth; and Solomon saw the young man, that he was one who did the work, and he appointed him over all the burden of the house of Joseph.

• 2 Kings 5:1

  Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man before his master and highly regarded, because through him YHWH had given victory to Aram. The man was a mighty man of valor, but leprous.

• 2 Kings 15:20

  Menahem imposed the silver on Israel, on all the men of worth, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver from each man. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.

And 119 more times.