כָּבַד

kavad · be heavy, honor

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3513 · appears 115 times in the Bible

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What it means

kavad (כָּבַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be heavy, honor”.

Be heavy. In a good sense, have weight: be rich, important or honored; hence "honor" and "glorify". In a bad sense, be a burden, or become dull and unresponsive (as Pharaoh's heart).

How to say it

ka·vad

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

To weigh much, like a burden.
To make the heart hard and unfeeling, as if it were heavy.
Literally "give weight": to hold someone in high regard.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To be heavy. In a good sense, to have weight: to be honored, important; hence “honor” and “glorify”. In a bad sense, to weigh as a burden or to become insensitive. From the same root is כָּבוֹד, “glory” (H3519).

Being heavy, weighing on someone 1 Samuel 5:6 Genesis 18:20
Honoring father and mother Exodus 20:12 Deuteronomy 5:16
Honoring YHWH and being honored by him 1 Samuel 2:30 Leviticus 10:3
YHWH gains glory Exodus 14:4
Making the heart insensitive Exodus 8:15 Exodus 9:34

How we translate it

“Honor” 28 times, “honored” 22, “honors” 4; “heavy” 18, “was heavy” 5; “made insensitive” 5. For Pharaoh's heart this edition sets “make insensitive”, with a note giving the literal “heavy”, and distinguishes this verb from חזק, “become obstinate”, and from קשׁה, “harden”. “I will gain glory” when YHWH glorifies himself (Exodus 14:4).

How it is translated

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

Honor ×28
honored ×22
heavy ×18
made insensitive ×5
was heavy ×5
honors ×4
be glorified ×3
glorious ×3
Glory in it ×2
I will gain glory ×2
others ×23

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

Genesis 13:2
Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis 18:20
Then YHWH said, “The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is indeed very grave.
Genesis 34:19
The young man did not delay to do the thing, for he delighted in the daughter of Jacob; and he was the most honored of all the house of his father.
Genesis 48:10
Now the eyes of Israel were heavy from old age; he could not see. So he brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
Exodus 5:9
Let the work be heavy on the men so that they labor at it and do not pay attention to lying words.”
Exodus 8:15
But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he made his heart insensitive and did not listen to them, as YHWH had said.
Exodus 8:32
But Pharaoh made his heart insensitive this time also, and he did not let the people go.
Exodus 9:7
Pharaoh sent, and look, not even one of the livestock of Israel had died. But the heart of Pharaoh was insensitive, and he did not let the people go.
Exodus 9:34
But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and made his heart insensitive, he and his servants.
Exodus 10:1
YHWH said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart and the heart of his servants insensitive, in order to put these signs of mine in their midst,
Exodus 14:4
I will make Pharaoh’s heart obstinate, and he will pursue them, and I will gain glory over Pharaoh and over all his army; and the Egyptians will know that I am YHWH.” And they did so.
Exodus 14:17
And I, look, I am making the heart of the Egyptians obstinate, so that they will go in after them; and I will gain glory over Pharaoh and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen.
Exodus 14:18
And the Egyptians will know that I am YHWH, when I gain glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long on the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you.
Leviticus 10:3
Moses said to Aaron, “This is what YHWH spoke, saying, ‘Among those who come near me I will be treated as holy, and before all the people I will be honored.’” And Aaron was silent.
Numbers 22:15
And Balak sent again princes, more numerous and more honored than these.
Numbers 22:17
for I will honor you greatly, and all that you say to me I will do. So come, please, curse this people for me.’”
Numbers 22:37
And Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send urgently to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not truly able to honor you?”
Numbers 24:11
So now flee to your place. I said, ‘I will greatly honor you’; but look, YHWH has held you back from honor.”
Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor your father and your mother, as YHWH your Elohim has commanded you, so that your days may be long and so that it may go well with you on the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you.
Deuteronomy 28:58
If you do not take care to do all the words of this instruction that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and awesome name, YHWH your Elohim,
Judges 1:35
The Amorite was determined to live in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but the hand of the house of Joseph weighed heavy, and they became forced labor.
Judges 9:9
But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I give up my fatness, by which through me Elohim and men are honored, and go to sway over the trees?’
Judges 13:17
And Manoah said to the angel of YHWH, “What is your name, so that when your word comes, we may honor you?”
Judges 20:34
And there came opposite Gibeah ten thousand chosen men from all Israel, and the war was heavy; but they did not know that the evil was reaching them.
1 Samuel 2:29
Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering that I commanded for the dwelling place, and honor your sons more than me, fattening yourselves with the first part of every offering of Israel my people?
1 Samuel 2:30
Therefore declares YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before me forever; but now declares YHWH: Far be it from me! For those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.
1 Samuel 5:6
And the hand of YHWH was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he devastated them and struck them with tumors, Ashdod and its territories.
1 Samuel 5:11
So they sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the Elohim of Israel, and let it return to its place, so that it does not put me to death, and my people.” For there was a deathly confusion throughout the city; the hand of Elohim was very heavy there.
1 Samuel 6:6
And why should you make your heart insensitive as Egypt and Pharaoh made their heart insensitive? Was it not when he had dealt harshly with them that they let them go, and they went?
1 Samuel 9:6
But he said to him, “Look, please, there is a man of Elohim in this city, and the man is held in honor; all that he says surely comes about. Now let us go there; perhaps he will tell us our way on which we should go.”
1 Samuel 15:30
He said, “I have sinned. Now honor me, please, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, and I will bow down to YHWH your Elohim.”
1 Samuel 22:14
Ahimelech answered the king and said, “And who among all your servants is like David, faithful, and the king’s son-in-law, who comes at your orders, and honored in your house?
1 Samuel 31:3
The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers, men with the bow, found him, and he trembled greatly because of the archers.
2 Samuel 6:20
David returned to bless his household, and Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel has honored himself today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the slave women of his servants, as one of the empty ones shamelessly uncovers himself!”
2 Samuel 6:22
And I will make myself contemptible even more than this, and I will be low in my own eyes; but with the slave women of whom you have spoken, with them I will be honored.”
2 Samuel 10:3
and the commanders of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Is David honoring your father in your eyes because he has sent comforters to you? Is it not in order to explore the city, to spy it out and to overthrow it, that David has sent his servants to you?”
2 Samuel 13:25
The king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let us not all go, so that we will not be a burden to you.” He insisted with him, but he was not willing to go, and he blessed him.
2 Samuel 14:26
When he shaved his head —and it was at the end of every year that he shaved it, for it was heavy on him, and he shaved it —he weighed the hair of his head: two hundred shekels by the weight of the king.
2 Samuel 23:19
Of the three, was he not the most honored? He became their commander, but to the three he did not attain.

And 75 more times.