Definition

powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant

Etymology

or גִּבֹּר; (shortened) intensive from the same as H1397 (גֶּבֶר);

Where the KJV renders it

• champion
• chief
• excel
• giant
• man
• mighty (man
• one)
• strong (man)
• valiant man

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.