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. Joshua 24:3 מֵעֵ֣בֶר me.'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

  2. Joshua 24:8 בְּעֵ֣בֶר be.'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that dwelt beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and ye possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

  3. Joshua 24:14 בְּעֵ֤בֶר be.'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Now therefore fear Jehovah, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve ye Jehovah.

  4. Joshua 24:15 מֵעֵ֣בֶר me.'e.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

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