kaved · heavy, severe

What it means

kaved (כָּבֵד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “heavy, severe”.

Heavy. Figuratively, grievous, severe; also great, abundant.

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. That weighs much and is hard to carry.
2. Hard and severe, difficult to bear: a terrible famine.
3. That abounds or is very great in number or size.
4. Clumsy and slow of speech, as if the tongue were heavy.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• heavy ×19
• severe ×6
• great ×4
• large force ×2
• slow ×2
• solemn ×2
• heavier ×1
• insensitive ×1
• large ×1
• weighed down ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×8
• Exodus×12
• Numbers×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 12:10

  There was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to reside as an alien there, for the famine was severe in the land.

• Genesis 41:31

  The abundance will not be known in the land because of that famine afterward, for it will be very severe.

• Genesis 43:1

  The famine was severe in the land.

• Genesis 47:4

  They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside as aliens in the land, for there is no pasture for the flocks that your servants have, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

• Genesis 47:13

  There was no bread in all the land, for the famine was very severe, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

• Genesis 50:9

  There went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and the company was very large.

• Genesis 50:10

  They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there with a great and very solemn lamentation; and he observed a mourning of seven days for his father.

• Genesis 50:11

  When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

• Exodus 4:10

  Moses said to YHWH, “Please, Adonai, I have never been a man of words, either in the past or before that or since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of mouth and slow of tongue.”

• Exodus 7:14

  YHWH said to Moses, “The heart of Pharaoh is insensitive; he refuses to let the people go.

• Exodus 8:24

  YHWH did so; heavy swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh and the house of his servants, and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.

• Exodus 9:3

  look, the hand of YHWH will be on your livestock that are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the cattle, and on the flocks, with a very severe pestilence.

• Exodus 9:18

  Look, about this time tomorrow I will rain down very heavy hail, such as has never been like it in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

• Exodus 9:24

  There was hail, and fire flashing in the midst of the hail, very heavy, such as had never been like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

• Exodus 10:14

  The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled in all the territory of Egypt, very heavy; before them there had never been such locusts as these, nor will there be such after them.

• Exodus 12:38

  And also a great mixed crowd went up with them, and flocks and herds, livestock in very great numbers.

• Exodus 17:12

  But Moses’ hands grew heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and one on the other side; so his hands were steady until the setting of the sun.

• Exodus 18:18

  You will surely wear yourself out, both you and this people that is with you; for the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.

• Exodus 19:16

  On the third day, when morning came, there were thunders and lightnings and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a horn, very loud; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

• Numbers 11:14

  I am not able by myself to carry all this people, for it is too heavy for me.

• Numbers 20:20

  But he said, “You shall not pass through.” And Edom came out against him with a heavy force and with a strong hand.

• 1 Samuel 4:18

  And it happened, when he mentioned the ark of Elohim, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

• 1 Kings 3:9

  So give your servant a heart that listens, to judge your people, to discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this people of yours, so great?”

• 1 Kings 10:2

  And she came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, camels carrying spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was in her heart.

• 1 Kings 12:4

  “Your father hardened our yoke; now you, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we will serve you.”

• 1 Kings 12:11

  And now, my father loaded on you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

• 2 Kings 6:14

  He sent there horses and chariots and a heavy force, and they came by night and surrounded the city.

• 2 Kings 18:17

  The king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large force to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem; they went up and came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the Launderer’s Field.

• 2 Chronicles 9:1

  The queen of Sheba heard the fame of Solomon, and she came to test Solomon with riddles in Jerusalem, with a very great retinue and camels carrying spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones; she came to Solomon and spoke with him all that was on her heart.

• 2 Chronicles 10:4

  “Your father hardened our yoke; so now lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we will serve you.”

• 2 Chronicles 10:11

  And now, my father loaded on you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I with scorpions.’”

• Psalms 38:4

  For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

• Proverbs 27:3

  Heavy is the stone, and a burden the sand, but the vexation of a fool is heavier than both of them.

• Isaiah 1:4

  Woe, sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have abandoned YHWH, they have spurned the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away backward.

• Isaiah 32:2

  And each one will be like a cover from the wind and a hiding place from the downpour, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shade of a heavy crag in a weary land.

• Isaiah 36:2

  The king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah with a large force; and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the Launderer’s Field.

• Ezekiel 3:5

  For not to a people of obscure speech and heavy tongue are you sent, but to the house of Israel;

• Ezekiel 3:6

  not to many peoples of obscure speech and heavy tongue, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

And 1 more times.