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 20:8 וּמֵעֵ֜בֶר u.me.'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

  2. Joshua 22:4 בְּעֵ֖בֶר be.'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And now Jehovah your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he spake unto them: therefore now turn ye, and get you unto your tents, unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you beyond the Jordan.

  3. Joshua 22:7 בְּעֵ֥בֶר be.'e.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but unto the other half gave Joshua among their brethren beyond the Jordan westward; moreover when Joshua sent them away unto their tents, he blessed them,

  4. Joshua 22:11 עֵ֖בֶר 'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertaineth to the children of Israel.

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

    And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. Judges 5:17 בְּעֵ֤בֶר be.'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Gilead abode beyond the Jordan: And Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, And abode by his creeks.

  11. Judges 7:25 מֵעֵ֖בֶר me.'E.ver · A person, place or thing

    And they took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

  12. Judges 10:8 בְּעֵ֣בֶר be.'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel that year: eighteen years oppressed they all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

  13. Judges 11:18 בְּעֵ֣בֶר be.'E.ver · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they came not within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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;

  20. 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.

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