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# עָוַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5786

**make blind** — used 5 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

make blind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5786/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָוַר: vb.Pi. make blind, blind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5786/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.Pi. make blind, blind (orig. meaning of √ dub.; Thes עור = dig (Arabic غَارٌ etc. cave); HalRÉJ xi, 67 cp. עוֹר skin, whence blindness as cataract;—Aramaic adj. עֲוִיר, ܥܘܺܪ blind, Pa. עַוַּר, ܥܰܘܰܪ = Heb. Pi.; Arabic عَوِرَ be one-eyed, Ethiopic ዖረ be blind Di 995);— Pf. 3 ms. עִוֵּר 2 K 25:7, c. עֵינֵי put out the eyes of = Je 39:7 = 52:11; Impf. 3 ms. יְעַוֵּר fig., Ex 23:8 (E) a bribe blindeth, c. acc. pers. (Sam. 𝔊 ins. עֵינֵי); Dt 16:19, c. עֵינֵי.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (27 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (20 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he made blind (3); it makes blind (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 23:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.8/#tree)

וְשֹׁ֖חַד לֹ֣א תִקָּ֑ח כִּ֤י הַשֹּׁ֙חַד֙ יְעַוֵּ֣ר פִּקְחִ֔ים וִֽיסַלֵּ֖ף דִּבְרֵ֥י צַדִּיקִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and a.bribe not you.must.take (dm) (the) bribe it.makes.blind clear-sighted.\[people\] and it.perverts the.words of.righteous.\[people\]

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

[Jeremiah 39:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.39.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.39.7/#tree)

וְאֶת־עֵינֵ֥י צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ עִוֵּ֑ר וַיַּאַסְרֵ֙הוּ֙ בַּֽנְחֻשְׁתַּ֔יִם לָבִ֥יא אֹת֖וֹ בָּבֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.eyes of.Zedekiah he.made.blind and he bound.him with.(the) bronze fetters to bring him to Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5786.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5786/): 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).