עֵ֫בֶר

e.ver · side: beyond

Hebrew · Strong's H5676 · Noun · Sounds like: ay'-ber · 90 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • side: beyond H5676H 56
  • side: beside H5676G · a Meaning of 32
  • side: west H5676I · a Meaning of 2

Strong's dictionary

from עָבַר; properly, a region across; but used only adverbially (with or without a preposition) on the opposite side (especially of the Jordan; ususally meaning the east); [idiom] against, beyond, by, [idiom] from, over, passage, quarter, (other, this) side, straight.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
עֵ֫בֶר 91 n.m. region across or beyond, side
1. region across or beyond anything
2. (Opposite) side, side

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Samuel 14:1 מֵעֵ֣בֶר me.'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Now it fell upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armor, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he told not his father.

  2. 1 Samuel 14:4 מֵהָעֵ֙בֶר֙ me.ha.'E.ver · A person, place or thing

    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.

  3. 1 Samuel 14:4 מֵהָעֵ֖בֶר me.ha.'E.ver · A person, place or thing

    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.

  4. 1 Samuel 14:40 לְעֵ֣בֶר le.'E.ver · A person, place or thing

    Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.

  5. 1 Samuel 14:40 לְעֵ֣בֶר le.'E.ver · A person, place or thing

    Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.

  6. 1 Samuel 26:13 הָעֵ֔בֶר ha.'E.ver · A person, place or thing

    Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;

  7. 1 Samuel 31:7 בְּעֵ֨בֶר be.'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

  8. 1 Samuel 31:7 בְּעֵ֣בֶר be.'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

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