Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H4569: מַעֲבָר

maʻăbâr · pronounced mah-ab-awr' · “ford”

Definition

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

KJV translates it as: ford, place where...pass, passage.

Word origin: or feminine מַעֲבָרָה; from H5674 (עָבַר);

Extended definition

1) ford, pass, passing
1a) ford
1b) pass
1c) passing, sweep

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H4569 is translated

  • the fords of ×3
  • fords ×2
  • the ford of ×1
  • the pass of ×1
  • passes ×1
  • the pass ×1
  • the fords ×1
  • blow of ×1

Bible verses with H4569 (maʻăbâr)

Maʻăbâr appears in 11 verses.

  • 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 Jabbok.

  • Joshua 2:7

    And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: 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 of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.

  • Judges 12:5

    And the Gileadites took the passages 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 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 of Michmash.

  • 1 Samuel 14:4

    And between the passages, 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: 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 of Arnon.

  • Isaiah 30:32

    And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, 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 are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.