TRV
גָּבַר
How the KJV Renders It
TranslationStrong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
MorphologyIn the Hebrew Old Testament, this word appears as a verb across 25 occurrences, inflected in 11 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it.
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גָּבְרוּ
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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גָבַר
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יִתְגַּבָּר
- Hithpael
- Reflexive-intensive — the subject acts upon itself.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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גִבַּרְתִּי
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Consecutive Perfect
- Perfect with vav — continues a sequence into the future.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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יִּגְבְּרוּ
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Consecutive Imperfect
- Imperfect with vav — carries narrative forward ("and he…").
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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גָבַר
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Consecutive Perfect
- Perfect with vav — continues a sequence into the future.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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הִגְבִּיר
- Hiphil
- The causative stem — the subject causes the action.
- Consecutive Perfect
- Perfect with vav — continues a sequence into the future.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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נַגְבִּיר
- Hiphil
- The causative stem — the subject causes the action.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Plural
- More than one.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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יִתְגַּבָּרוּ
- Hithpael
- Reflexive-intensive — the subject acts upon itself.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יְגַבֵּר
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יִגְבַּר
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 24 verses across 13 of the 39 books. Most frequent in Genesis (5 verses); never once in the other 26.
Every Occurrence
ConcordanceEvery verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.