Word

מַעֲבָר

maʻăbâr · H4569 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences

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Meanings

pass

A single instance in a range of repeated events

Examples
Isaiah 30:32 And every blow of the rod of punishment, Which the LORD will lay on him, Will be with the music of tambourines and lyres; And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight them.
ford

A place where it is most practical to wade through a river

Examples
Genesis 32:22 Now he got up that same night and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his eleven children, and crossed the shallow place of the Jabbok.
mountain pass

A place where it is most practical to cross a mountain range

Examples
1 Samuel 13:23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the gorge of Michmash.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

6 occurrences in 4 groups

יַרְדֵּןJordan 3
יַבֹּקJabbok 1
מַטֶּהtribe, staff, rod 1
מִכְמָסMichmash 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בָּקַשׁto seek, to search, to look for 1
נוּחַto rest, to put, to leave 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1
תָּפַשׂto take hold 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

לָכַדto capture, to take, to catch 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 3 groups

אֵלto, toward 4
עַלon, upon, over, against 2
בֵּיןbetween, among 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Circumstantial Referents003002002: This domain is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which describe fords and crossing places as physical locations rather than circumstantial markers.
Roads001003002007: מַעֲבָר denotes a crossing place or passage, as with the fords of the Jordan the Gileadites seize to block the fleeing Ephraimites.
Landforms001002003: מַעֲבָר denotes a ford, the natural shallow crossing point of a river or stream.

Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

עָבַר ʻâbar · H5674 · to pass, to pass by, to pass on · 556×עֵבֶר ʻêber · H5676 · side, across, beyond · 90×עָבוּר ʻâbûwr · H5668 · so that, in order that, for the sake of · 49×עֶבְרָה ʻebrâh · H5678 · wrath, anger, fury · 34×עֲבַר ʻăbar · H5675 · beyond, this side · 14×מַעֲבָרmaʻăbâr · H4569עָבוּר ʻâbûwr · H5669 · produce, yield, so that · 2×עֲבָרָה ʻăbârâh · H5679 · ford, crossing · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4569. ma 'abar [מַעֲבָר] noun [masculine] ford, pass, passing; — only construct: 1…

H4569. ma
'abar [מַעֲבָר] noun [masculine] ford, pass, passing; — only construct:
1 יַבֹּק מַעֲבַר Gen 32:23 (J) the ford of (the) Jabbok.
2 pass, מִכְמָשׂ מַעֲבַר 1Sa 13:23 the pass of M.
3 passing, sweep, מַטֶּה כָּלמַֿעֲבַר Isa 30:32 every sweep of the rod (עָבַר 4c).
מַעְבָּרָה
noun feminine ford, pass, passage; — absolute ׳מ Isa 10:29; plural מַעְבָּרוֺת Isa 16:2; Jer 51:32, מַעְבְּרוֺת absolute Jos 2:7; 1Sa 14:4; construct Jdg 3:28 Jdg 3:2t.; —
1 ford, only plural Jos 2:7 (JE), Jdg 3:28; Jdg 12:5-6, Isa 16:2; so also 1Sa 13:7 (for עָֽבְרוּ ᵑ0) We Dr Kit Löhr; + מַעְבֶּרֶת 1Ki 7:46 2Ch 4:17, see סֻכּוֺת
2 pass (wady, ravine), 1Sa 14:4; Isa 10:29.
3 passage in defensive works of Babylonian Jer 51:32.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Roads10 occurrences Circumstantial Referents1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0