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# אֵבֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H83

**pinions** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pinions [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/83/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵ֫בֶר: pinions [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/83/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] pinions (from strength, poet. & fig., pl. in sense) as of dove ψ 55:7; eagle Is 40:31; אֶרֶךְ הָא׳ of king, of Babyl. under fig. of eagle Ez 17:3 (‖ גְּדוֹל הַכְּנָפַיִם of broad, overshadowing wings).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wing\[s\] (2); wing (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 55:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.55.7/#tree)

וָאֹמַ֗ר מִֽי־יִתֶּן־לִּ֣י אֵ֭בֶר כַּיּוֹנָ֗ה אָע֥וּפָה וְאֶשְׁכֹּֽנָה׃

*Word for word:* and I.said who? will.he.give \[will belong\].to.me wing\[s\] like (the) dove I.want.to.fly.away and I.want.to.settle.down

*JPS 1917:* And I said: 'Oh that I had wings like a dove! then would I fly away, and be at rest.

[Isaiah 40:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.31/#tree)

וְקוֹיֵ֤ יְהוָה֙ יַחֲלִ֣יפוּ כֹ֔חַ יַעֲל֥וּ אֵ֖בֶר כַּנְּשָׁרִ֑ים יָר֙וּצוּ֙ וְלֹ֣א יִיגָ֔עוּ יֵלְכ֖וּ וְלֹ֥א יִיעָֽפוּ׃פ

*Word for word:* and \[those.who\].wait.for (of).Yahweh they.will.renew strength they.will.go.up wing\[s\] like (the) eagles they.will.run and not they.will.become.weary they.will.walk and not they.will.grow.weary

*JPS 1917:* But they that wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/83.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/83/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).