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. Nehemiah 2:7 עֵ֣בֶר 'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through till I come unto Judah;

  2. Nehemiah 2:9 עֵ֣בֶר 'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.

  3. Nehemiah 3:7 עֵ֥בֶר 'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, that appertained to the throne of the governor beyond the River.

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