אַבִּיר

Judges 5:22 אַבִּירָֽיו׃ mighty [horses] his

Then the hooves of horses thundered—the mad galloping of his stallions.

1 Samuel 21:7 אַבִּ֥יר [the] mighty [one] of

Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.

Job 24:22 אַבִּירִ֣ים mighty [ones]

Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life.

Job 34:20 אַ֝בִּ֗יר [the] mighty

They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.

Here: 'The mighty one,' a singular standing for the whole class. The word is used for bulls and stallions and for chiefs and warriors. It suggests raw strength and power that seems untouchable, and it continues the 'princes' and 'rich' of verse 19.

Psalm 22:12 אַבִּירֵ֖י mighty [bulls] of

Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

Here: "Mighty ones of." The word "bulls" is left out but understood, which is why KJV prints [bulls] in brackets. The word means strength and force, and elsewhere it can also mean powerful men, so it leans toward the image of human strongmen.

Psalm 50:13 אַבִּירִ֑ים mighty [bulls]

Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Psalm 68:30 אַבִּירִ֨ים׀ mighty [bulls]

Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.

Here: 'Mighty ones', i.e. powerful bulls, as in 'strong bulls of Bashan' (Ps 22:12). This is a stock image for chieftains and warriors.

Psalm 76:5 אַבִּ֣ירֵי [people] mighty of

The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.

Here: "The mighty ones of…" The word is used for bulls, war-horses and champions. Here it names the elite of the enemy army, and by sound it echoes "majestic" (*'addir*), the word used of God in v. 4.

Psalm 78:25 אַ֭בִּירִים mighty [ones]

Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

Here: Literally 'mighty ones', a word used for powerful bulls, war-horses, warriors and nobles. Paired with 'grain of heaven' in verse 24, it most naturally means the powerful beings of heaven, so the ancient Greek translation already rendered it 'angels'. The Hebrew itself does not use the ordinary word for angel (malʾak).

Isaiah 10:13 כַּאבִּ֖יר like a mighty [man]

For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.

Here: 'Like a mighty one'. The word is used of strong men and of bulls and stallions (Ps 22:12; Jer 8:16). It is very close to the divine title 'the Mighty One of Israel/Jacob' (Isa 1:24). The king casts himself as an unstoppable force, almost a god.

Isaiah 34:7 אַבִּירִ֑ים mighty [bulls]

And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.

Isaiah 46:12 אַבִּ֣ירֵי O [people] mighty of

Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:

Here: 'Mighty ones of…' The word is used for powerful bulls, war-horses and strongmen. Joined to 'heart', it pictures a will like an immovable bull. Here, in a rebuke, it means stubborn and unyielding, not brave.

Jeremiah 8:16 אַבִּירָ֔יו mighty [horses] his

The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.

Here: Literally 'his mighty ones'. Next to 'horses', the word here means stallions or chargers (compare Jer 47:3; Judg 5:22), not human soldiers.

Jeremiah 46:15 אַבִּירֶ֑יךָ mighty [ones] your

Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.

Jeremiah 47:3 אַבִּירָ֔יו mighty [horses] its

at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.

Jeremiah 50:11 כָּאֲבִּרִֽים׃ like <the> mighty [horses]

“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

Here: 'Like the mighty ones.' With 'neigh' it means stallions, as in Jeremiah 8:16 and 47:3. The same word can mean strong bulls (Psalm 22:12), which is where the KJV gets 'bulls.'

Lamentations 1:15 אַבִּירַ֤י׀ mighty [ones] my

The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.

Here: 'My mighty ones', meaning Jerusalem's warriors and leading men. The same word names powerful bulls and war-horses elsewhere, so it suggests brute strength that came to nothing.