Strong H4569H4569Bמַעֲבָרָה
ford
One of the 2 senses of Strong H4569
- Transliteration
- ma‛ăbâr ma‛ăbârâh
- Pronunciation
- {mah-ab-awr'} mah-ab-aw-raw'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
1) ford, pass, passing
1a) ford
1b) pass
1c) passing, sweep
Also means: ma.a.var (מַעֲבָר "ford" H4569A)
1a) ford
1b) pass
1c) passing, sweep
Also means: ma.a.var (מַעֲבָר "ford" H4569A)
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
Strong H4569B appears in 8 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- passage5
- ford3
First verses
- Joshua 2:7And 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 3:28And 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 12:5And 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 12:6Then 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 14:4And 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 10:29They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
- Isaiah 16:2For 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.
- Jeremiah 51:32And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.