Lexical Definition

‎כָּבַר‎ kâbar (kaw-bar') to multiply ^H:V
a primitive root

in abundance, multiply.

• properly, to plait together, i.e. (figuratively) to augment (especially in number or quantity, to accumulate)

1) to be much, be many, be in abundance, intertwine, multiply
1a) (Hiphil) to make many, make great

See Greek: ἰσχύω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎כָּבַר‎] verb be much, many (Assyrian kabâru, be great, mighty; kabru, great, huge; Arabic be great, in body, rank, or age, great, noble, aged; Ethiopic be honoured, magnified; honoured, glorious; Sabean epithet ‎כבר‎ Hal^{Et. Sab. JAs Dec. 1874, No. 90}; Syriac , for Hebrew ‎רָבָה‎, ‎הִרְבָּה‎, (rare) much; Zinjirli be abundant, numerous) —

Hiph`il (only Elihu) make many, Job 35:16 ‎בִּבְלִי דַעַת מִלִּין יַכְבִּר‎ (compare ‎וְיֶרֶב אֲמָרָיו‎ Job 34:37) > make great, Bu^{Beitr. 138}, comparing Job 8:2 ‎מַכְבִּיר‎ with the force of a substantive (Ew^{§ 160 c}) Job 36:31 ‎לְמַכְֶבִּיר‎ ‎יתן אכל‎ giveth food in abundance (= prose ‎לָרֹב‎, e.g. 2Chr 11:23).

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