Strong H45692 sensesמַעֲבָר

ford

Transliteration
ma‛ăbâr ma‛ăbârâh
Pronunciation
{mah-ab-awr'} mah-ab-aw-raw'

The 2 senses of Strong H4569

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H4569 appears in 11 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. fordמַעֲבָרָהH4569B8 verses · 5 books
  2. fordH4569A3 verses · Genesis, 1 Samuel, Isaiah

General definition

From H5674; a crossing place (of a {river} a ford; of a {mountain} a pass); abstractly a {transit} that {is} (figuratively) overwhelming: - {ford} place where . . . {pass} passage.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • passage6
  • ford4
  • pass1

First verses

  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 Jabbok.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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;
  5. 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.
  6. 1 Samuel 13:23
    And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Jeremiah 51:32
    And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.