Lexical Summary kibrah: distance Original Word: כִּבְרָהTransliteration: kibrah Phonetic Spelling: (kib-raw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: distance Meaning: length, a measure Strong's Concordance little Feminine of kbar; properly, length, i.e. A measure (of uncertain dimension) -- X little. see HEBREW kbar Brown-Driver-Briggs H3530. kibrah [כִּבְרָה] noun feminine apparently distance, only in the phrase (ה)ארץ כִּבְרַת a distance of land or length of way, Genesis 35:16 כ עוֺד ׳וַיְהִי ׳ה אֶפְרָתָה לָכוֺא, 48:7 כ ׳בְּעוֺד ׳א אֶפְרָתָה לָבאֹ, 2 Kings 5:19 כ מֵאִתּוֺ ׳וַיֵּלֶךְ אָ֑רֶץ. The distance meant is uncertain, but from 5:19 it would seem to have been a short one; see further DiGenesis 35:16 and Thes (Assyrian kibrâti is a (widely extended) territory, quarter of the world, etc., DlHWB 315; according to Hoffm.GGAbh. xxxvi (1890), 23-25 perhaps the distance that one can see). |
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