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. 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.

  2. 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;

  3. 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.

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