עָבוּר
ʻâbûwr · H5668 · Hebrew · 49 occurrences
Meanings
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so that, in order that
Particle linking two propositions X and Y, by which Y represents the purpose or result of X
ExamplesGenesis 21:30 He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness for me, that I dug this well.”
Genesis 27:4 and prepare a delicious meal for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die.”
Genesis 27:10 “Then you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”
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for the sake of, for the benefit of, because of
Particle linking proposition X to participant Y, by which Y represents the cause or beneficiary of X
ExamplesGenesis 3:17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; With hard labor you shall eat from it All the days of your life.
Genesis 8:21 The LORD smelled the soothing aroma, and the LORD said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
Genesis 12:13 “Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you, and that I may live on account of you.”
How it’s used In 2 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
16 occurrences in 15 groups
- Other words · 15 groups that occur once or twice (16) 16
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
49 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 62
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- גָּלָל gâlâl · H1558 · dung, excrement
- Both words are prepositions of cause and purpose with highly overlapping senses ("because of," "for the sake of"), and can substitute in similar contexts.
In the other Testament 3 words
- διά diá · G1223 · through, by, by means of
- Both עָבוּר (ʻâbûwr, H5668) and διά (diá, G1223) function as multi-purpose prepositions expressing cause, purpose and instrumentality. Hebrew עָבוּר indicates reason, intent or benefit ("because of," "for the sake of," "in order that"), while Greek διά covers the same causal and purposive ground with its genitive ("because of," "on account of") and accusative ("for the sake of") uses. Διά served as the standard Greek rendering of this Hebrew causal-purposive marker in the Septuagint.
- ἕνεκα héneka · G1752 · on account of, because of, in order that
- ἕνεκα (héneka, G1752) serves as the direct Greek translation equivalent for עָבוּר (ʻâbûwr, H5668) in prepositional constructions expressing cause, purpose, or benefit — both denote 'on account of' or 'for the sake of' with overlapping semantic and syntactic distribution in purpose/reason contexts.
- ὅπως hópōs · G3704 · how, in what manner, in order to
- עָבוּר (ʻâbûwr, H5668) עָבוּר expresses purpose or causation ('for the sake of', 'in order that'), while ὅπως (hópōs, G3704) ὅπως specifically marks purpose or result clauses ('in order that', 'so that'); both function as purposive/causal conjunctions with overlapping semantic scope in translation contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Perception002004
- בַּעֲבוּר functions as a causal/purposive connector meaning "because of" or "for the sake of," illustrated at Genesis 3:17 ("cursed is the ground because of you") and Exodus 9:16 ("for this reason I have allowed you to remain"), consistently introducing the ground or purpose behind an action rather than naming a perceptible object.
- Crops001003001003002
- This entry's own tagged occurrences reflect the preposition/noun “for the sake of” or “because of”, as in “Then to Adam He said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife... cursed is the ground because of you’” (Genesis 3:17); this “Crops” domain reflects the agricultural context of that same verse's curse on the ground's produce rather than an independent crop-specific sense of the lexeme itself.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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