Bible dictionaries

Overpass

What Bible dictionaries say about “Overpass”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Overpass - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

OVERP'ASS, v.t.

1. To cross; to go over.

2. To overlook; to pass without regard.

3. To omit, as in reckoning.

4. To omit; not to receive or include.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

o-ver-pas': A special translation of the very common verb `abhar, "to pass over," found in English Versions of the Bible of Ps 57:1 and Isa 26:20 in the sense "to pass by," and in Jer 5:28 with the meaning "to overflow."

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915