◄ 3528. kebar ►
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kebar: Already, long ago

Original Word: כְּבָר
Part of Speech: Adverb
Transliteration: kbar
Pronunciation: keh-bar
Phonetic Spelling: (keb-awr')
KJV: already, (seeing that which), now
NASB: already
Word Origin: [from H3527 (כָּבַר - abundance)]

1. (properly) extent of time, i.e. a great while
2. (hence) long ago, formerly, hitherto

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
already, seeing that which, now

From kabar; properly, extent of time, i.e. A great while; hence, long ago, formerly, hitherto -- already, (seeing that which), now.

see HEBREW kabar

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from kabar
Definition
already
NASB Translation
already (8).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
I. כְּבָר adverb (late) already (frequently in Mishna and Late Hebrew; ᵑ7 כבר (rare); Syriac usually perhaps, occas. already (Matthew 11:21; Hebrews 10:2); Mandean כבאר already, NöM. p. 202. Der. uncertain, connection with √ כבר being dubious) — already, Ecclesiastes 1:10 כְּבָר הָיָה it hath already been, Ecclesiastes 2:12,16; Ecclesiastes 3:15 (twice in verse); Ecclesiastes 4:2; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Ecclesiastes 9:6,7.

Forms and Transliterations
בְּשֶׁכְּבָ֞ר בשכבר כְּבָ֖ר כְּבָ֣ר כְּבָר֙ כְבָ֔ר כבר שֶׁכְּבָ֣ר שכבר bə·šek·kə·ḇār bəšekkəḇār beshekkeVar cheVar kə·ḇār ḵə·ḇār kəḇār ḵəḇār keVar šek·kə·ḇār šekkəḇār shekkeVar
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Englishman's Concordance
Ecclesiastes 1:10
HEB: חָדָ֣שׁ ה֑וּא כְּבָר֙ הָיָ֣ה לְעֹֽלָמִ֔ים
NAS: it is new ? Already it has existed
KJV: this [is] new? it hath been already of old time,
INT: fresh he already has existed ages

Ecclesiastes 2:12
HEB: אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־ כְּבָ֖ר עָשֽׂוּהוּ׃
NAS: [except] what has already been done?
KJV: the king? [even] that which hath been already done.
INT: the king what has already done

Ecclesiastes 2:16
HEB: הַכְּסִ֖יל לְעוֹלָ֑ם בְּשֶׁכְּבָ֞ר הַיָּמִ֤ים הַבָּאִים֙
KJV: for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days
INT: the fool lasting now days as the coming

Ecclesiastes 3:15
HEB: מַה־ שֶּֽׁהָיָה֙ כְּבָ֣ר ה֔וּא וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר
NAS: is has been already and that which
KJV: That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already
INT: is has been already and that which

Ecclesiastes 3:15
HEB: וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר לִהְי֖וֹת כְּבָ֣ר הָיָ֑ה וְהָאֱלֹהִ֖ים
NAS: and that which will be has already been,
KJV: That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God
INT: which been will be has already been God

Ecclesiastes 4:2
HEB: אֶת־ הַמֵּתִ֖ים שֶׁכְּבָ֣ר מֵ֑תוּ מִן־
NAS: who are already dead
KJV: the dead which are already dead
INT: I the dead are already dead more

Ecclesiastes 6:10
HEB: מַה־ שֶּֽׁהָיָ֗ה כְּבָר֙ נִקְרָ֣א שְׁמ֔וֹ
NAS: exists has already been named,
KJV: That which hath been is named already, and it is known
INT: how long exists has already bewray and it

Ecclesiastes 9:6
HEB: גַּם־ קִנְאָתָ֖ם כְּבָ֣ר אָבָ֑דָה וְחֵ֨לֶק
NAS: and their zeal have already perished,
KJV: and their envy, is now perished;
INT: Indeed and their zeal have already perished A share

Ecclesiastes 9:7
HEB: יֵינֶ֑ךָ כִּ֣י כְבָ֔ר רָצָ֥ה הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים
NAS: for God has already approved
KJV: for God now accepteth
INT: your wine for has already approved God

9 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 3528
9 Occurrences


bə·šek·kə·ḇār — 1 Occ.
ḵə·ḇār — 1 Occ.
kə·ḇār — 6 Occ.
šek·kə·ḇār — 1 Occ.

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