כֹּבֶדkôbed

weight, multitude, vehemence

Pronunciation: ko'-bed · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3514

Meanings

1. heaviness, weight (Proverbs 27:3)

2. mass, abundance (Nahum 3:3)

3. vehemence (Isaiah 21:15; Isaiah 30:27)

Same root

כָּבַדkâbad · H3513to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable; causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses)

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

Proverbs 27:3 A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier.
Isaiah 21:15 They have fled from the sword, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow and the terrors of battle.
Isaiah 30:27 Look! The Lord is coming from far away, burning with anger, surrounded by thick, rising smoke. His lips are filled with fury; his words consume like fire.
Nahum 3:3 See the flashing swords and glittering spears as the charioteers charge past! There are countless casualties, heaps of bodies— so many bodies that people stumble over them.

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).