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# מַעֲבָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4569

**ford** — 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

ford [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4569/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲבָר²: ford, pass, passing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4569/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] ford, pass, passing;—only cstr.: מַעֲבַר יַבֹּק Gn 32:23 (J) the ford of (the) Jabbok. pass, מַעֲבַר מִכְמָשׂ 1 S 13:23 the pass of M. passing, sweep, כָּל־מַעֲבַר מַטֶּה Is 30:32 every sweep of the rod (עָבַר 4 c).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: blow (1); the ford (1); the pass (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 13:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.23/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵא֙ מַצַּ֣ב פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים אֶֽל־מַעֲבַ֖ר מִכְמָֽשׂ׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.came.out the.garrison of.\[the\].Philistines to the.pass of.Micmash

*JPS 1917:* And the garrison of the Philistines went out unto the pass of Michmas.

[Isaiah 30:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.32/#tree)

וְהָיָ֗ה כֹּ֤ל מַֽעֲבַר֙ מַטֵּ֣ה מֽוּסָדָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָנִ֤יחַ יְהוָה֙ עָלָ֔יו בְּתֻפִּ֖ים וּבְכִנֹּר֑וֹת וּבְמִלְחֲמ֥וֹת תְּנוּפָ֖ה נִלְחַם־בָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be every blow of.\[the\].staff of.appointment which he.will.place Yahweh on it with tambourines and with harps and with battles of.brandishing he.will.fight against them

*JPS 1917:* And in every place where the appointed staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps; and in battles of wielding will He fight with them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4569.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4569/): 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).