Lexical Definition

‎אַבִּיר‎ ʼabbîyr (ab-beer') mighty: ox ^H:A-M
for ‎אָבִיר‎

angel, bull, chiefest, mighty (one), stout(-hearted), strong (one), valiant.

• {mighty (spoken of God)}

1) mighty, valiant
1a) of men
1b) of angels
1c) of animals
1d) (metaph)
1d1) of enemies
1d2) of princes
1d3) of sacrificial objects
1e) obstinate (fig.)

See Greek: ἀδύνατος · δυνάστης · θεός · ἰσχύς · ἰσχύω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אַבִּיר‎ adjective mighty, valiant — ‎׳‎‎א‎ Job 34:20 + Isa 10:13 Kt (Qr ‎כַּבִּיר‎); construct id. 1Sam 21:8* plural ‎אַכִּירִים‎ Job 24:22 +; — mighty (always = substantive & in poetry except 1Sam 21:8*).

1. men Job 24:22 (= violent) Job 34:20; 1Sam 21:8* (read ‎הָרָצִים‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ Gr Dr, compare 1Sam 22:17 but Lag^Probebibel ‎אֹבִיל הָעֲיָרִים‎ see Id.^{BN 45}; Klo ‎גִּבּוֺר‎), Lam 1:15 ‎אַבִּירֵי לֵב‎ stout of heart Isa 46:12 (= obstinate) Ps 76:6*.

2. angels Ps 78:25 (compare Ps 103:20).

3. animals; bull, simile of king of Assyrian Isa 10:13 (read ‎כְּאַבִּיר‎ & see Di); elsewhere plural; metaphor for enemies ‎אַבִּירֵי בָשָׁן‎) Ps 22:13* (|| ‎פּרים‎); for princes Ps 68:31* for Edomites Isa 34:7 hence even as sacrificial Ps 50:13 (|| ‎עַתּוּדִים‎); of horses Jer 8:16; Jer 47:3; Jer 50:11. **Judg 5:22; Jer 46:15 (but Jer 46:15 many MSS. ‎ᵐ5‎ Aq Symm Theod ‎ᵑ9‎ many moderns read ‎אַבִּירֶ֑ךָ‎ thy bull, i.e. Apis).

‎אַבְרָהָם‎ see ‎אַבְרָם‎ below II. ‎אבה‎.

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