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Hebrew a-m · H47

אַבִּיר

abbirab-beer'

mighty: ox

17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼabbîyr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H47is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 14
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H47

{mighty (spoken of God)}

The King James renders it: angel, bull, chiefest, mighty (one), stout(-hearted), strong (one), valiant.

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

abbir is rendered "mighty: ox". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 5:22Then the hooves of horses thundered—the mad galloping of his stallions.
  • The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.

The first use

Then the hooves of horses thundered—the mad galloping of his stallions.

Judges 5:22אַבִּירָֽיו׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Five of the word's seventeen uses are in Psalms.

The other 32 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • mighty6
  • mighty of3
  • mighty his2
  • like a mighty1
  • like the mighty1
  • mighty its1
  • mighty my1
  • mighty your1
  • O mighty of1

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.

All 17, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

14 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

  • אַבִּ֣ירֵי2
  • אַבִּירָ֔יו2
  • אַבִּירִ֑ים2
  • אַבִּ֥יר1
  • אַ֝בִּ֗יר1
  • אַבִּירֵ֖י1
  • אַבִּירַ֤י׀1
  • אַבִּירָֽיו׃1
  • אַבִּירֶ֑יךָ1
  • אַ֭בִּירִים1
  • אַבִּירִ֣ים1
  • אַבִּירִ֨ים׀1

and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · masculine plural5HAampa
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HAampc
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HAampc/Sp3ms
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HAampc/Sp1bs
  • adjective · masculine singular1HAamsa
  • adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HAamsc
  • adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HAamsc/Sp2ms
  • preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HR/Aamsa
  • preposition with the article + adjective · masculine plural1HRd/Aampa

Judges

one use
  • Then the hooves of horses thundered—the mad galloping of his stallions.

    Judges 5:22

    • אַבִּירָֽיו׃ʾabiravadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mighty his

1 Samuel

one use
  • Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.

    1 Samuel 21:7

    • אַבִּ֥ירʾabiradjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mighty of

Job

two uses
  • Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.

    Job 24:22

    • אַבִּירִ֣יםʾabirimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty
  • They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.

    Job 34:20

    • אַ֝בִּ֗ירʾabiradjective · masculine singulartagged: mighty

Psalms

five uses
  • Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

    Psalms 22:12

    • אַבִּירֵ֖יʾabireiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mighty of
  • Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

    Psalms 50:13

    • אַבִּירִ֑יםʾabirimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty
  • Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.

    Psalms 68:30

    • אַבִּירִ֨ים׀ʾabirimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty
  • The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.

    Psalms 76:5

    • אַבִּ֣ירֵיʾabireiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mighty of
  • Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

    Psalms 78:25

    • אַ֭בִּירִיםʾabirimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty

Isaiah

three uses
  • For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.

    Isaiah 10:13

    • כַּאבִּ֖ירkabirpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: like a mighty
  • And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.

    Isaiah 34:7

    • אַבִּירִ֑יםʾabirimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: mighty
  • Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:

    Isaiah 46:12

    • אַבִּ֣ירֵיʾabireiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O mighty of

Jeremiah

four uses
  • The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.

    Jeremiah 8:16

    • אַבִּירָ֔יוʾabiravadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mighty his
  • Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.

    Jeremiah 46:15

    • אַבִּירֶ֑יךָʾabireikhaadjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mighty your
  • at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.

    Jeremiah 47:3

    • אַבִּירָ֔יוʾabiravadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mighty its
  • “Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

    Jeremiah 50:11

    • כָּאֲבִּרִֽים׃kaabirimpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: like the mighty

Lamentations

one use
  • The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.

    Lamentations 1:15

    • אַבִּירַ֤י׀ʾabiraiadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mighty my

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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