What is the Strong's number for Kabad?

The Strong's number for Kabad (כָּבַד) is H3513. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Kabad (Strong’s H3513): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Kabad mean?

Kabad (כָּבַד, Strong's H3513) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to 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). The King James Bible translates it as abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, × be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, × more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop.

Kabad (כָּבַד) is the Hebrew word numbered H3513 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to 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). In the King James Bible it is translated abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, glorify.

כָּבַד

kâbad · Hebrew

Strong’s H3513 · kaw-bad'

Original wordכָּבַד
Transliterationkâbad
Pronunciationkaw-bad'
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH3513
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

to 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)

Derivation. or כָּבֵד; a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, × be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, × more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Kabad appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Kabad (H3513) stands behind 121 English renderings in 109 verses across 26 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (20), 1 Samuel (12), Psalms (11).

How the King James Bible renders Kabad, by count

honour24 of 121 (20 percent)
heavy16 of 121 (13 percent)
honourable14 of 121 (12 percent)
glorify7 of 121 (6 percent)
glorified6 of 121 (5 percent)
hardened6 of 121 (5 percent)

Three places to read Kabad

Genesis 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
2 Samuel 6:22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
Proverbs 8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Kabad in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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