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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - גָּבַר

גָּבַר

H1396

Transliteration: gâbar

Pronunciation: gaw-bar'

Definition: exceed


Original: גּבר

Transliteration: gâbar

Phonetic: gaw-bar'

BDB Definition:

  1. to prevail, have strength, be strong, be powerful, be mighty, be great
    1. (Qal)
      1. to be strong, mighty
      2. to prevail
    2. (Piel) to make strong, strengthen
    3. (Hiphil)
      1. to confirm, give strength
      2. to confirm (a covenant)
    4. (Hithpael)
      1. to show oneself mighty
      2. to act proudly (toward God)

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 310

Part(s) of speech: Verb


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