Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3516
כָּבֵד
kabedkaw-bade'
liver
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kâbêd
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3516is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3516
the liver (as the heaviest of the viscera)
The King James renders it: liver.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kabed is rendered "liver". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 29:13Take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
Exodus 29:13הַכָּבֵ֔ד
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's fourteen uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the liver11
- at the liver1
- liver his1
- liver my1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כָּבוֹד | kabod | glory | Uses200 |
| כָּבַד | kabad | to honor: honour | Uses113 |
| כָּבַס | kabas | Washer's | Uses51 |
| כָּבֵד | kabed | heavy | Uses41 |
| כָּבָה | kabah | to quench | Uses24 |
| כָּבַשׁ | kabash | to subdue | Uses14 |
| כָּבַר | kabar | to multiply | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַכָּבֵ֔ד8
- הַכָּבֵד֙2
- בַּכָּבֵֽד׃1
- הַכָּבֵֽד׃1
- כְּֽבֵד֗וֹ1
- כְּבֵדִ֔י1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular11HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp1bs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3ms
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
Exodus
two uses
Take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
- הַכָּבֵ֔דhakavedthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the liver
Take the fat from the ram, the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh (since this is a ram for ordination),
- הַכָּבֵד֙hakavedthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the liver
Leviticus
nine uses
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.
- הַכָּבֵ֔דhakavedthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the liver
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.
- הַכָּבֵ֔דhakavedthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the liver
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.
- הַכָּבֵ֔דhakavedthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the liver
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys—
- הַכָּבֵ֔דhakavedthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the liver
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.
- הַכָּבֵ֔דhakavedthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the liver
Moses also took all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys and their fat, and burned it all on the altar.
- הַכָּבֵ֔דhakavedthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the liver
And Moses took the fat—the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with their fat—as well as the right thigh.
- הַכָּבֵ֔דhakavedthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the liver
On the altar he burned the fat, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver from the sin offering, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- הַכָּבֵד֙hakavedthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the liver
They also brought the fat portions from the ox and the ram—the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver—
- הַכָּבֵֽד׃hakavedthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the liver
Proverbs
one use
until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.
- כְּֽבֵד֗וֹkevedonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: liver his
Lamentations
one use
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
- כְּבֵדִ֔יkevedinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: liver my
Ezekiel
one use
For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.
- בַּכָּבֵֽד׃bakavedpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: at the liver
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.