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Lexicon :: Strong's H47 - 'abîr

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אַבִּיר
Transliteration
'abîr
Pronunciation
ab-beer'
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Part of Speech
masculine adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 13d

Strong’s Definitions

אַבִּיר ʼabbîyr, ab-beer'; for H46:—angel, bull, chiefest, mighty (one), stout(-hearted), strong (one), valiant.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H47 in the following manner: bulls (4x), strong (ones) (4x), mighty (3x), stouthearted (2x), valiant (2x), angels (1x), chiefest (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H47 in the following manner: bulls (4x), strong (ones) (4x), mighty (3x), stouthearted (2x), valiant (2x), angels (1x), chiefest (1x).

  1. mighty, valiant

    1. of men

    2. of angels

    3. of animals

    4. (metaph)

      1. of enemies

      2. of princes

      3. of sacrificial objects

    5. obstinate (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַבִּיר ʼabbîyr, ab-beer'; for H46:—angel, bull, chiefest, mighty (one), stout(-hearted), strong (one), valiant.
STRONGS H47: Abbreviations
† אַבִּיר adjective mighty, valiant — א׳ Job 34:20 + Isaiah 10:13 Kt (Qr כַּבִּיר); construct id. 1 Samuel 21:8; plural אַכִּירִים Job 24:22 +; — mighty (always = substantive & in poetry except 1 Samuel 21:8).
1. men Job 24:22 (= violent) Job 34:20; 1 Samuel 21:8 (read הָרָצִים א׳ Gr Dr, compare 1 Samuel 22:17; but LagProbebibel אֹבִיל הָעֲיָרִים see Id.BN 45; Klo גִּבּוֺר), Lamentations 1:15; אַבִּירֵי לֵב stout of heart Isaiah 46:12 (= obstinate) Psalm 76:6.
2. angels Psalm 78:25 (compare Psalm 103:20).
3. animals; bull, simile of king of Assyrian Isaiah 10:13 (read כְּאַבִּיר & see Di); elsewhere plural; metaphor for enemies אַבִּירֵי בָשָׁן) Psalm 22:13 (|| פּרים); for princes Psalm 68:31; for Edomites Isaiah 34:7; hence even as sacrificial Psalm 50:13 (|| עַתּוּדִים); of horses Jeremiah 8:16; Jeremiah 47:3; Jeremiah 50:11. **Judges 5:22; Jeremiah 46:15 (but Jeremiah 46:15 many MSS. Greek Version of the LXX Aq Symm Theod Vulgate many moderns read אַבִּירֶ֑ךָ thy bull, i.e. Apis).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

5:22

1 Samuel

21:8; 21:8; 21:8; 22:17

Job

24:22; 24:22; 34:20; 34:20

Psalms

22:13; 50:13; 68:31; 76:6; 78:25; 103:20

Isaiah

10:13; 10:13; 34:7; 46:12

Jeremiah

8:16; 46:15; 46:15; 47:3; 50:11

Lamentations

1:15

H47

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H47 matches the Hebrew אַבִּיר ('abîr),
which occurs 17 times in 17 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:22 - When the hoofs of the horse were entangled, his mighty ones earnestly hasted

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:7 - (LXX 21:8) And there was there on that day one of Saul's servants [fn]detained before the Lord, and his name was Doec the Syrian, tending the mules of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:22 - And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: therefore when he has arisen, a man will not feel secure of his own life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:20 - But it shall turn out vanity to them, to cry and beseech a man; for they dealt unlawfully, the poor being turned aside from their right.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:12 - (LXX 21:13) Many [fn]bullocks have compassed me: fat bulls have beset me round.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:13 - (LXX 49:13) Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 - (LXX 67:31) Rebuke the wild beasts of the reed: let the crowd of bulls with the heifers of the nations be rebuked, so that they who have been proved with silver may not be shut out: scatter thou the nations that wish for wars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:5 - (LXX 75:6) All the simple ones in heart were troubled; all the men of wealth have slept their sleep, and have found nothing in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:25 - (LXX 77:25) Man ate angels' bread; [fn] he sent them provision to the full.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:13 - For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:7 - And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be [fn]soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:12 - Hearken to me, ye senseless ones, that are far from righteousness:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:16 - We shall hear the neighing of his swift horses out of Dan: the whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of his horses; and he shall come, and devour the land and the fulness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:15 - (LXX 26:15) Wherefore has Apis fled from thee? thy choice calf has not remained; for the Lord has utterly weakened him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:3 - (LXX 29:3) at the sound of his rushing, at the sound of his hoofs, and at the rattling of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels: the fathers turned not to their children because of the weakness of their hands,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:11 - (LXX 27:11) Because ye rejoiced, and boasted, while plundering mine heritage; because ye exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 - Samech. The Lord has cut off all my strong men from the midst of me: he has summoned against me a time for crushing my choice men: the Lord has trodden a wine-press for the virgin daughter of Juda: for these things I weep.
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