Lexical Definition

‎כְּבָר‎ kᵉbâr (keb-awr') already ^H:Adv
from ‎כָּבַר‎

already, (seeing that which), now.

• properly, extent of time, i.e. a great while
• hence, long ago, formerly, hitherto

1) already, long ago, a great while

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎כְּבָר‎ adverb (late) already (frequently in Mishna and Late Hebrew; ᵑ7 ‎כבר‎ (rare); Syriac usually perhaps, occas. already (Matt 11:21; Heb 10:2); Mandean ‎כבאר‎ already, Nö^{M. p. 202. Der. uncertain, connection} with √ ‎כבר‎ being dubious) — already, Eccl 1:10 ‎כְּבָר‎ ‎הָיָה‎ it hath already been, Eccl 2:12; Eccl 2:16; Eccl 3:15 (twice in verse); Eccl 4:2; Eccl 6:10; Eccl 9:6; Eccl 9:7.

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