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. Genesis 50:10 בְּעֵ֣בֶר be.'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

  2. Genesis 50:11 בְּעֵ֥בֶר be.'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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