kevar · already, long ago

What it means

kevar (כְּבָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “already, long ago”.

Already; long ago, formerly.

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. A word saying that something has already happened or is already done.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ecclesiastes 1:10

  There is a thing of which one says, “See this: it is new”; already it has been in the ages that were before us.

• Ecclesiastes 2:12

  And I turned to see wisdom and madness and witlessness; for what will the man who comes after the king do? What they have already done.

• Ecclesiastes 2:16

  For there is no remembrance of the wise man as with the senseless forever, since already in the days to come everything will be forgotten. And how the wise man dies just like the senseless!

• Ecclesiastes 3:15

  What has been already is, and what is to be already has been; and Elohim seeks what is pursued.

• Ecclesiastes 4:2

  And I praised the dead who have already died more than the living who are still alive;

• Ecclesiastes 6:10

  Whatever has been, already its name has been called; and it is known that he is a human being, and he cannot contend with the one who is stronger than he.

• Ecclesiastes 9:6

  Both their love and their hatred and their envy have already perished, and they have no longer a portion forever in all that is done under the sun.

• Ecclesiastes 9:7

  Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a good heart, for already Elohim has been pleased with your works.

And 1 more times.