עֲבַר
ʻăbar · H5675 · Aramaic · 14 occurrences
Meanings
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across, beyond
A reference to a space facing away from a vantage point, situated across a ravine, desert, stream, or the sea
ExamplesEzra 4:10 and the rest of the nations which the great and honorable Osnappar deported and settled in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the region beyond the Euphrates River. And now
Ezra 4:11 this is a copy of the letter which they sent to him: “To King Artaxerxes: Your servants, the men of the region beyond the Euphrates River; and now
Ezra 4:16 “We are informing the king that if that city is rebuilt and the walls finished, then as a result of this you will have no possession in the province beyond the Euphrates River.”
How it’s used In 3 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
14 occurrences in 1 groups
- נְהַרriver 14
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 6
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
8 occurrences in 4 groups
- פֶּחָהcaptain 4
- שְׁאָרwhatsoever more 2
- מִדָּהmeasure 1
- אֱנָשׁhuman 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- πέραν péran · G4008 · opposite, across from, on the other side of
- Greek πέραν corresponds to Aramaic עֲבַר as the standard cross-linguistic equivalent for the spatial sense ‘beyond, across.’
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Spatial Referents003002005
- Ezra 4:10 introduces the accusatory letter's signatories, “the rest of the nations which the great and honorable Osnappar deported and settled in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the region beyond the Euphrates River.”
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5675. abar עֲבַר noun masculine region across, beyond (see Biblical Hebrew I. עֵ֫בֶר…
עֲבַר noun masculine region across, beyond (see Biblical Hebrew I. עֵ֫בֶר √עָבַר); — construct in phrase עֲבַר(ֿ)נַהֲרָה, i.e. Syria (Scheft87): Ezr 4:10-11, Ezr 4:17, Ezr 4:20; Ezr 5:3, Ezr 5:6 (twice in verse); Ezr 6:6 (twice in verse); Ezr 6:8, Ezr 6:13; Ezr 7:21, Ezr 7:25, ׳ע נהרא Ezr 4:16. compare in Cilician Aramaic, Cooke346.
עַד see עדה. below
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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