abir · mighty, steed

What it means

abir (אַבִּיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mighty, steed”.

Strong, mighty. Said of valiant men, of bulls and of war horses: "his steeds" are, word for word, "his mighty ones" (Judges 5:22).

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. Someone or something of great strength that prevails over others: the mighty one, the chief.
2. A bull, the strongest animal of the herd.
3. A warhorse, strong and swift, of the kind that pull chariots.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• mighty ×5
• bulls ×3
• stallions ×3
• strong ×3
• chief ×1
• steeds ×1
• you hard ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×5
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×4
• Lamentations×1

• Judges 5:22

  Then the hoofs of the horses hammered from the galloping, the galloping of his steeds.

• 1 Samuel 21:7

  Now there was a man of the servants of Saul on that day, detained before YHWH; his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of the shepherds who belonged to Saul.

• Job 24:22

  And he drags off the mighty by his strength; he rises up, and no one is sure of life.

• Job 34:20

  In a moment they die, and at midnight; the people are shaken and pass away, and they remove the mighty without hand.

• Psalms 22:12

  Many bulls have surrounded me; strong ones of Bashan have encircled me.

• Psalms 50:13

  Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of male goats?

• Psalms 68:30

  Rebuke the beast of the reeds, the community of bulls with the calves of the peoples, the one who humbles himself with pieces of silver; he has scattered the peoples who delight in battles.

• Psalms 76:5

  The strong of heart were plundered; they slept their sleep, and none of the men of valor found their hands.

• Psalms 78:25

  The bread of the strong each one ate; provisions he sent them to the full.

• Isaiah 10:13

  For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; and I have removed the boundaries of peoples, and their treasures I have plundered; and like a mighty one I have brought down those who sat on thrones.

• Isaiah 34:7

  And wild oxen will come down with them, and young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drenched with blood, and their dust with fat will be made fat.

• Isaiah 46:12

  Listen to me, you hard of heart, who are far from righteousness:

• Jeremiah 8:16

  From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses; at the sound of the neighing of his stallions the whole land quakes; and they come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who live in it.

• Jeremiah 46:15

  Why has your mighty one been swept away? He did not stand, for YHWH thrust him down.

• Jeremiah 47:3

  at the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rattling of his chariots, the rumbling of his wheels; the fathers do not turn back to their children for the slackness of their hands,

• Jeremiah 50:11

  Because you rejoice, because you exult, plunderers of my inheritance, because you frisk like a heifer threshing, and neigh like stallions,

• Lamentations 1:15

  Adonai has rejected all my mighty ones in my midst; he has called against me an appointed feast to crush my young men; Adonai has trodden as a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.