סַנְוֵר
çanvêr · H5575 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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blinding, blindness
State in which a person is suddenly unable to see
ExamplesGenesis 19:11 Then they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, from the small to the great, so that they became weary of trying to find the doorway.
2 Kings 6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness in accordance with the word of Elisha.
How it’s used In 1 role
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3 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 6
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Near synonyms 1 word
- עִוָּרוֹן ʻivvârôwn · H5788 · blindness
- Both words denote the same physical condition, blindness, with the same sense, two distinct Hebrew words for the same disability.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unable002001001065
- Blindness, the supernatural affliction that struck the men of Sodom at Lot's doorway and the Aramean raiders confronting Elisha, in both cases disabling them from finding their way.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5575. sanverim סַנְוֵרִים noun [masculine] plural intensive or abstract (Sta§ 324 b)…
סַנְוֵרִים noun [masculine]
plural intensive or
abstract (Sta§ 324 b) sudden blindness (etymology dubious; derivation from נוּר highly improbable, whether antiphrase WetzstDe Psalm 4, 886 Köii. 1, 404, or from dazzling, compare 'flimmern' HoffmZAW ii (1882), 68; but also view of HalRŠJ xi. 66 derivatives from √ סנר cover with a skin, i.e. produce film over, lacks demonstration; at present we must be content with assuming quadriliteral √, Thes Sta§ 243); — בַּסּ ׳הִכּוּ Gen 19:11 (J) they smote the men with sudden blindness, compare 2Ki 6:18; 2Ki 2:18 (all cases miraculous, and in Kings temporary).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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