גִּבּוֹרgibbôwr

strong, mighty

Pronunciation: ghib-bore' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1368

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 159 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 6:4 In those days, and for some time after, giant Nephilites lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient times.
  • Genesis 10:8 Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who was the first heroic warrior on earth.
  • Genesis 10:9 Since he was the greatest hunter in the world, his name became proverbial. People would say, “This man is like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the world.”
  • Deuteronomy 10:17 “For the Lord your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords. He is the great God, the mighty and awesome God, who shows no partiality and cannot be bribed.
  • Joshua 1:14 Your wives, children, and livestock may remain here in the land Moses assigned to you on the east side of the Jordan River. But your strong warriors, fully armed, must lead the other tribes across the Jordan to help them conquer their territory. Stay with them
  • Joshua 6:2 But the Lord said to Joshua, “I have given you Jericho, its king, and all its strong warriors.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).