Strong's Hebrew · H1368

גִּבּוֹר

gibbôwr · ghib-bore'

champion, chief, [idiom] excel, giant, man, mighty (man, one), strong (man), valiant man.

Definition

powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant

Derivation

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

Appears 159 times in Scripture

Jeremiah 48:14

How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?

1 Chronicles 27:6

This Benaiah was mighty among the Thirty and was over the Thirty, and his son Ammizabad was in charge of his division.

Jeremiah 46:12

The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”

Nehemiah 9:32

So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

Genesis 10:8

Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.

Genesis 10:9

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”

1 Chronicles 11:26

Now these were the mighty men: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

Zechariah 10:5

They will be like mighty men in battle, trampling the enemy in the mire of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the horsemen to shame.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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