Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3530 - כִּבְרָה kibrah (distance)

Original Word:	כִּבְרָה
Transliteration:	kibrah
Definition:	distance
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(kib-raw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

little

Feminine of kbar; properly, length, i.e. A measure (of uncertain dimension) -- X little.

see HEBREW kbar

Englishman's Concordance

1) distance (undetermined length)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3528
Same Word by TWOT Number: 947b

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[כִּבְרָה] noun feminine apparently distance, only in the phrase כִּבְרַת (ה)ארץ a distance of land or length of way, Genesis 35:16לָכוֺא אֶפְרָתָה׳ה׳וַיְהִי עוֺד כ, Genesis 48:7לָבאֹ אֶפְרָתָה׳א׳בְּעוֺד כ, 2 Kings 5:19אָ֑רֶץ׳וַיֵּלֶךְ מֵאִתּוֺ כ. The distance meant is uncertain, but from 2 Kings 5:19 it would seem to have been a short one; see further Di^{Genesis 35:16 and} Thes (Assyrian kibrâti is a (widely extended) territory, quarter of the world, etc., Dl^{HWB 315}; according to Hoffm.^{GGAbh. xxxvi (1890), 23-25} perhaps the distance that one can see).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3530. כִּבְרַת (kibrah) — 3 Occurrences

Genesis 35:16
HEB:וַֽיְהִי־ ע֥וֹד כִּבְרַת־ הָאָ֖רֶץ לָב֣וֹא
NAS: and when there was still some distance to go
KJV: and there was but a little way
INT: there was still some way to go

Genesis 48:7
HEB:בַּדֶּ֔רֶךְ בְּע֥וֹד כִּבְרַת־ אֶ֖רֶץ לָבֹ֣א
NAS: when there was still some distance to go
KJV: when yet [there was] but a little way
INT: the journey still some the land to go

2 Kings 5:19
HEB:וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ מֵאִתּ֖וֹ כִּבְרַת־ אָֽרֶץ׃ ס
NAS: So he departed from him some distance.
KJV: So he departed from him a little way.
INT: peace departed some way

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