אַבִּירʼabbîyr

mighty, valiant

Pronunciation: ab-beer' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H47

Meanings

1. violent, Id. (Job 24:22; Job 34:20; 1 Samuel 21:8)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 17 times in the Bible.

  • Judges 5:22 Then the horses’ hooves hammered the ground, the galloping, galloping of Sisera’s mighty steeds.
  • 1 Samuel 21:7 Now Doeg the Edomite, Saul’s chief herdsman, was there that day, having been detained before the Lord.
  • Job 24:22 “God, in his power, drags away the rich. They may rise high, but they have no assurance of life.
  • Job 34:20 In a moment they die. In the middle of the night they pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
  • Psalms 22:12 My enemies surround me like a herd of bulls; fierce bulls of Bashan have hemmed me in!
  • Psalms 50:13 Do I eat the meat of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats?
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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).