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kbr (kḇar, a/eḵḇar) adv. already; perhaps
1
already, long since
Qumran, JLAtg, Gal, Syr, JBAmb, JBA, Man, LJLA
GenApoc 22.23↗ ברא מן די אכלו כבר עולימי‏ : except for that which my lads have already eaten ; TgJ 1Sam15:29↗ כְבָר גְזִיר עְלָך‏ ; PTBer 12.c:48[2]↗ כבר מילתך אמירה‏ : your word is already said ; PTTan 64.b:59[2]↗ כבר דעבדון שמייא ניסין‏ : it is already the case that heaven has done miracles ; OS MtCur11:21↗ ܟܒܪ ܕܝܢ ܒܣܩ̈ܐ ܘܒܩܛܡܐ ܬܒܘ‏ : they would long since have repented in sackcloth and ashes ; HS.4↗ ܐܟܒܪ ܨ݁ܡܕܘ ܠܝ ܡܘܒܠܐ‏ : they had already harnessed up a load for me ; P Mt11:21↗ ܟ݁ܒ݂ܲܪ ܕܸ݁ܝܢ ܒ݁ܣܲܩܸܐ̈ ܘܲܒ݂ܩܸܛܡܵܐ ܬ̇ܵܒ݂ܘ‏ ; JBABowl 70.1:4↗ דלא ידענא שמה כבר פירישו ^לי^ משבעה יומי בראשית‏ : the one whose name I did not know they have already specified for me from the seven days of creation ; BT Šab 19a(37)↗ כבר קדמוך רבנן‏ : the scholars have already preceded you ; PJ Gen19:34↗ הא כבר שמישית רמשי עם איבא‏ : look I already lay with dad last night
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is it not the case that already ... ?
LJLA
TgEsth2 5:14(8)↗ יתרמי קדם כלבין כבר דאסתתמו פום כלבין בארעא דמצרים‏ : let him be thrown to the dogs; but is it not true that the mouth of the dogs was sealed up in the land of Egypt?
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indeed, actually (i.e., for a long time now)
Sam
Marqe 1.211↗ לית אנון כבר שמעין לקולי‏ : they do not really listen to my voice ; Marqe 1.365↗ יחידאה הוא כבר בשבילה לגרמה‏ : he is indeed the one alone on the road by himself
2
perhaps
JLAtg, Syr, LJLA
TgJ 1Sam2:1↗ כְבָר שְמוּאֵל בְרִי עְתִיד לְמִהוֵי נְבִיָא עַל יִשרָאֵל‏ : could my son Samuel really become the prophet over Israel! ; P Gn16:2↗ ܟܒܪ ܐܬܒܝܐ ܡܢܗ‏ : perhaps I may be consoled [though surely an error for ܐܬܒܢܐ] through her ; P 2S14:16↗ ܟܒܪ ܢܦܨܐ ܠܐܡܬܗ‏ : perhaps he will save his maidservant ; TgEsth2 1:1(20)↗ כבר מתפני אבוך נבוכ׳ נצר‏ : perhaps your father Nebuchadnezzar will return
3
almost
JLAtg, Syr
TgJ Jer38:9↗ כְבָר מִית בְאֲתרֵיה מִן קְֹדָם כַפנָא‏ : he has all but died in his place from famine
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Syr. also ܐܲܟܒ݂ܲܪ܂ ܐܸܟܒ݂ܲܪ‏
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It is often difficult to disambiguate among the possible meanings.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 597[316]DJPA: 249bDJBA: 550bJastrow: 609Drower/Macuch: 202aPayne-Smith: 1672J. Payne-Smith: 203Levy Ch-W: 1:351Tal Sam: 376DCPA[Schulthess]: 171[90]Qumran: 109

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