מַעֲבָרָה

ma.a.va.rah · ford

Hebrew · Strong's H4569 · Noun · Sounds like: mah-ab-awr' · 11 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • ford H4569B 8
  • ford H4569A · a Spelling of 3

Strong's dictionary

or feminine מַעֲבָרָה; from עָבַר; a crossing-place (of a river, a ford; of a mountain, a pass); abstractly, a transit, i.e. (figuratively) overwhelming; ford, place where...pass, passage.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[מַעֲבָר] n.[m.] ford, pass, passing
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מַעֲבָרָה n.f. ford, pass, passing

Every occurrence

  1. Genesis 32:22 מַעֲבַ֥ר ma.'a.Var · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.

  2. Joshua 2:7 הַֽמַּעְבְּר֑וֹת ha.ma'.be.Rot · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they that pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.

  3. Judges 3:28 מַעְבְּר֤וֹת ma'.be.Rot · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And he said unto them, Follow after me; for Jehovah hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and suffered not a man to pass over.

  4. Judges 12:5 מַעְבְּר֥וֹת ma'.be.Rot · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And it was so, that, when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;

  5. Judges 12:6 מַעְבְּר֣וֹת ma'.be.Rot · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.

  6. 1 Samuel 13:23 מַעֲבַ֖ר ma.'a.Var · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the garrison of the Philistines went out unto the pass of Michmash.

  7. 1 Samuel 14:4 הַֽמַּעְבְּר֗וֹת ha.ma'.be.Rot · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

  8. Isaiah 10:29 מַעְבָּרָ֔ה ma'.ba.Rah · A person, place or thing

    they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

  9. Isaiah 16:2 מַעְבָּרֹ֖ת ma'.ba.Rot · A person, place or thing

    For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

  10. Isaiah 30:32 מַֽעֲבַר֙ ma.'a.Var · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And every stroke of the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, shall be with the sound of tabrets and harps; and in battles with the brandishing of his arm will he fight with them.

  11. Jeremiah 51:32 וְהַמַּעְבָּר֣וֹת ve.ha.ma'.ba.Rot · A person, place or thing

    and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

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