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Proverbs 20:3
“It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
כָּבוֹדkâbôwd · kaw-bode'
H3519 · Hebrew
H3519 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
- Derivation
- rarely כָּבֹד; from H3513 (כָּבַד);
- KJV renderings
- glorious(-ly), glory, honour(-able).
- Grammar
- כָּב֣וֹד — common noun, both genders, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 200 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 31:1Genesis 45:13Genesis 49:6Exodus 16:7Exodus 16:10
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read כָּבוֹד here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.