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# עֶבְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5678

**overflow** — used 34 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

overflow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5678/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶבְרָה: n.f. overflow, arrogance, fury [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5678/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. overflow, arrogance, fury;—abs. ע׳ Is 13:9 +; cstr. עֶבְרַת Zp 1:18 +; sf. עֶבְרָתִי Is 10:6 +, etc.; pl. עֲבָרוֹת Jb 21:30; cstr. עַבְרוֹת ψ 7:7 Jb 40:11;— overflow, excess, outburst, ע׳ זָדוֹן Pr 21:24 excess of insolence; עַבְרוֹת אַפֶּ֑ךָ Jb 40:11 outbursts of thine anger. arrogance, of Moab Is 16:6 (+ גַּאֲוָה, גָּאוֹן), hence Je 48:30 (+ id. v 29). overflowing rage, fury: of men, Gn 49:7 (poem in J), Am 1:11 (both ‖ אַף), Is 14:6 Pr 14:35, שֵׁבֶט עֶבְרָתוֹ 22:8 (i.e. rod wielded by him in fury, v. also La 3:1 infr.), עַבְרוֹת צוֹרְרָ֑י ψ 7:7 the outbursts of fury of my foes. of י׳ Ho 5:10; 13:11 (‖ אַף), Hb 3:8 (‖ id.), Is 9:18 La 2:2 ψ 90:9, 11; + חֲרוֹן אַף Is 13:9, ‖ id. v 13 ψ 78:49 (+ זַעַם), 85:4; אֵשׁ עֶבְרָתִי Ez 21:36 (‖ זַעַם), 22:31 (‖ id.), v 21; 38:19; שֵׁבֶט עֶבְרָתוֹ La 3:1 (cf. Pr 22:8 supr.); עַם עֶבְרָתִי Is 10:6 (i.e. obj. of my rage), cf. דּוֹר עֶבְרָתוֹ Je 7:29; יוֹם עֶבְרַת י׳ Zp 1:18 day of י׳’s fury (coming judgment), so Ez 7:19 (del. Co Berthol, after 𝔊, as gloss from Zp); so יוֹם עֶבְרָה Zp 1:15 Pr 11:4; יוֹם עֲבָרוֹת Jb 21:30; cf. עֶבְרָה Pr 11:23.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 33 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fury (7); wrath (6); my wrath (5).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 11:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.23/#tree)

תַּאֲוַ֣ת צַדִּיקִ֣ים אַךְ־ט֑וֹב תִּקְוַ֖ת רְשָׁעִ֣ים עֶבְרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].desire of.righteous.\[people\] only \[is\].good \[the\].hope of.wicked.\[people\] \[is\].fury

*JPS 1917:* The desire of the righteous is only good; but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

[Psalms 85:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.85.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.85.4/#tree)

אָסַ֥פְתָּ כָל־עֶבְרָתֶ֑ךָ הֱ֝שִׁיב֗וֹתָ מֵחֲר֥וֹן אַפֶּֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* you.withdrew all fury your you.turned.back from the.burning your.anger your

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast withdrawn all Thy wrath; Thou hast turned from the fierceness of Thine anger.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5678.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5678/): 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).