כְּבָרkᵉbâr

already (Matthew 11:21; Hebrews 10:2; Ecclesiastes 1:10; Ecclesiastes 2:12; Ecclesiastes 2:16)

Pronunciation: keb-awr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3528

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 9 times in the Bible.

  • Ecclesiastes 1:10 Sometimes people say, “Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new.
  • Ecclesiastes 2:12 So I decided to compare wisdom with foolishness and madness (for who can do this better than I, the king?).
  • Ecclesiastes 2:16 For the wise and the foolish both die. The wise will not be remembered any longer than the fool. In the days to come, both will be forgotten.
  • Ecclesiastes 3:15 What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again.
  • Ecclesiastes 4:2 So I concluded that the dead are better off than the living.
  • Ecclesiastes 6:10 Everything has already been decided. It was known long ago what each person would be. So there’s no use arguing with God about your destiny.
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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).