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# מַעֲבָרָה

Biblical Hebrew

**ford** — used 8 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

ford [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e2_5b2_5d1_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעְבָּרָה: n.f. ford, pass, passage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e2_5b2_5d1_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ford, pass, passage;—abs. מ׳ Is 10:29; pl. מַעְבָּרוֹת Is 16:2; Je 51:32, מַעְבְּרוֹת abs. Jos 2:7; 1 S 14:4; cstr. Ju 3:28 + 2 times;— ford, only pl. Jos 2:7 (JE), Ju 3:28; 12:5, 6; Is 16:2; so also 1 S 13:7 (for MT עָֽבְרוּ) We Dr Kit Löhr; + מַעְבֶּרֶת 1 K 7:46 = 2 Ch 4:17, v. סֻכּוֹת. pass (wady, ravine), 1 S 14:4; Is 10:29. passage in defensive works of Bab. Je 51:32.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the fords (3); fords (2); \[the\] fords (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 10:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.29/#tree)

עָֽבְרוּ֙ מַעְבָּרָ֔ה גֶּ֖בַע מָל֣וֹן לָ֑נוּ חָֽרְדָה֙ הָֽרָמָ֔ה גִּבְעַ֥ת שָׁא֖וּל נָֽסָה׃

*Word for word:* they.have.passed.over \[the\].pass Geba \[will.be\].a.lodging.place for us it.has.trembled (the) Ramah Gibeah of.Saul it.has.fled

*JPS 1917:* They are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeath-shaul is fled.

[Isaiah 16:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.2/#tree)

וְהָיָ֥ה כְעוֹף־נוֹדֵ֖ד קֵ֣ן מְשֻׁלָּ֑ח תִּֽהְיֶ֙ינָה֙ בְּנ֣וֹת מוֹאָ֔ב מַעְבָּרֹ֖ת לְאַרְנֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be like a.bird fluttering a.nest sent.away they.will.be the.daughters of.Moab \[the\].fords of Arnon

*JPS 1917:* For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e2_5b2_5d1_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e2_5b2_5d1_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4/): 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).