Maʻăbâr — H4569

Definition

masculine noun

a crossing-place (of a river, a ford; of a mountain, a pass); abstractly, a transit, i.e. (figuratively) overwhelming

1. ford, pass, passing
1. ford
2. pass
3. passing, sweep

Usually translated as

passage, ford, place where...pass

Origin

or feminine maʻăbârâh; from H5674

• Derived from ʻâbar (H5674)

Greek equivalents

• pháranx (G5327)

Occurrences

Maʻăbâr occurs 11 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Joshua (1), Judges (3), 1 Samuel (2), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (1)

• Genesis 32:22 — And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford (מַעֲבַ֥ר) Jabbok.
• Joshua 2:7 — And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords (הַֽמַּעְבְּר֑וֹת): and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
• Judges 3:28 — And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords (מַעְבְּר֤וֹת) of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
• Judges 12:5 — And the Gileadites took the passages (מַעְבְּר֥וֹת) of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
• Judges 12:6 — Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages (מַעְבְּר֣וֹת) of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
• 1 Samuel 13:23 — And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage (מַעֲבַ֖ר) of Michmash.
• 1 Samuel 14:4 — And between the passages (הַֽמַּעְבְּר֗וֹת), by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
• Isaiah 10:29 — They are gone over the passage (מַעְבָּרָ֔ה): they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
• Isaiah 16:2 — For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords (מַעְבָּרֹ֖ת) of Arnon.
• Isaiah 30:32 — And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass (מַֽעֲבַר֙), which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
• Jeremiah 51:32 — And that the passages (וְהַמַּעְבָּר֣וֹת) are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.