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# עֵבֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5677

**Eber** — used 15 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

Eber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5677/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵ֫בֶר²: n.pr.m. Eber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5677/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Eber (perhaps eponym of Hebrews, form inferred from עִבְרִי, cf. reff. there);— ‘son’ of Shelaḥ, and ‘grandson’ of Arpachshad Gn 10:24 (J) = 1 Ch 1:18; Gn 11:14, 15 (P); ‘father’ of Peleg and Joktan 10:25 (J; with especially ref. to Joktan v 26 ff., i.e. to Arabians) = 1 Ch 1:19 (cf. v 20 ff.), of Peleg specif. Gn 11:16, 17 (P; with especially ref. to Abr. v 26 f.) cf. 1 Ch 1:25 (see v 27 f.); in Gn 10:21 (J) Shem is called אֲבִי כָּל־בְּנֵי־עֵבֶר; 𝔊 Εβερ.—ע׳ Nu 24:24 perhaps (si vera l.) belongs not here (= עִבְרִים Hebrews, 𝔊 Ἐβραίους, so Thes), but sub i. עֵבֶר = the (land) beyond (the river), ‖ אַשּׁוּר, so Di Kau. a Gadite chief 1 Ch 5:13, 𝔊 Ωβηδ, 𝔊L Εβερ. Benjamite names: 1 Ch 8:12, 𝔊 Ωβηδ, 𝔊L Αβερ. 1 Ch 8:22 (עֵבֶר van d. H. Ginsb; עֶבֶד Baer), 𝔊 Ωβδη, A Ωβηδ, 𝔊L Αβερ. a priest Ne 12:20 𝔊L Αβεδ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Eber (13); \[were\] Eber (1); of Eber (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.25/#tree)

עֵ֥בֶר פֶּ֖לֶג רְעֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* Eber Peleg Reu

*JPS 1917:* Eber, Peleg, Reu;

[1 Chronicles 8:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.22/#tree)

וְיִשְׁפָּ֥ן וָעֵ֖בֶר וֶאֱלִיאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and Ishpan and Eber and Eliel

*JPS 1917:* And Ishpan, and Ebed, and Eliel;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5677.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5677/): 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).