אֵבֶר
ʼêber · H83 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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a wing
The part of the body of a bird that is used for flying
ExamplesPsalm 55:6 I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.
Ezekiel 17:3 saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “A great eagle with great wings, long pinions, and a full plumage of many colors came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.
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to mount up with wings
Literally: to mount up with wings; hence: to have considerable physical strength
ExamplesIsaiah 40:31 Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- עָלָהto go up 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- כָּנָף kânâph · H3671 · wing, corner, hem
- Hebrew כָּנָף is the more common word for 'wing' and can substitute for אֵבֶר in contexts referring to bird wings. אֵבֶר appears to emphasize the pinion or flight feather aspect (long-winged), while כָּנָף is the general term for wing.
In the other Testament 1 word
- πτέρυξ ptéryx · G4420 · wing
- Greek πτέρυξ is the standard translation equivalent for Hebrew אֵבֶר in the sense of 'wing' (particularly of long-winged birds). Both denote the appendage used for flight.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Strong002001001063
- אֵבֶר names a long or strong wing, as the eagle's great pinions able to bear it aloft.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H83. eber אֵ֫בֶר noun [masculine] pinions (from strength, in poetry & figurative, plural…
אֵ֫בֶר noun [masculine] pinions (from strength, in poetry & figurative, plural in sense) as of dove Psa 55:7; eagle Isa 40:31; הָא ׳אֶרֶךְ of king of Babylon under figure of eagle Eze 17:3 (|| הַכְּנָפַיִם גְּדוֺל of broad, overshadowing wings).
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
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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