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עָבַר

a.varto passHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb555 occurrences36 books492 verses
This word comes from the name of Valley of the Travelers.

Definition

a primitive root; to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
Traditional renderings: alienate, alter, × at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-) come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, shave, cause to (make) sound, × speedily, × sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-) faring man, be wrath.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עָבַר:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

555 total
  1. Isaiah 62:10עִבְרוּ֙ · go out
    Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!
  2. Jeremiah 2:6עָ֤בַר · travels
    They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
  3. Jeremiah 2:10עִבְר֞וּ · Cross over
    Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:
  4. Jeremiah 5:22יַעַבְרֶ֑נְהוּ · cross; יַעַבְרֻֽנְהוּ׃ · cross it
    Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
  5. Jeremiah 5:28עָֽבְר֣וּ · have excelled
    They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
  6. Jeremiah 8:13יַעַבְרֽוּם׃ · will be lost to them
    I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”
  7. Jeremiah 8:20עָבַ֥ר · has passed
    “The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”
  8. Jeremiah 9:10עֹבֵ֔ר · passes through
    I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
  9. Jeremiah 9:12עֹבֵֽר׃ס · one can pass through it
    Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?
  10. Jeremiah 11:15יַעַבְר֣וּ · avert
    What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you are wicked, then you rejoice.
  11. Jeremiah 13:24עוֹבֵ֑ר · driven
    “I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
  12. Jeremiah 15:14וְהַֽעֲבַרְתִּי֙ · Then I will enslave you
    Then I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for My anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”
  13. Jeremiah 18:16עוֹבֵ֣ר · who pass
    They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
  14. Jeremiah 19:8עֹבֵ֣ר · who pass
    I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
  15. Jeremiah 22:8וְעָֽבְרוּ֙ · will pass
    And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
  16. Jeremiah 23:9עֲבָ֣רוֹ · overcome
    As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.
  17. Jeremiah 32:35לְ֠הַעֲבִיר · pass through
    They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.
  18. Jeremiah 33:13תַּעֲבֹ֧רְנָה · pass
    In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD.
  19. Jeremiah 34:18הָעֹֽבְרִים֙ · And those who have transgressed; וַיַּעַבְר֖וּ · in order to pass
    And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.
  20. Jeremiah 34:19הָעֹ֣בְרִ֔ים · who passed
    The officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf,
  21. Jeremiah 41:10לַעֲבֹ֖ר · to cross over
    Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people of Mizpah—the daughters of the king along with all the others who remained in Mizpah—over whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and set off to cross over to the Ammonites.
  22. Jeremiah 46:17הֶעֱבִ֖יר · pass him by
    There they will cry out: ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he has let the appointed time pass him by.’
  23. Jeremiah 48:32עָ֣בְרוּ · have extended
    I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.
  24. Jeremiah 49:17עֹבֵ֣ר · who pass
    “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
  25. Jeremiah 50:13עֹבֵ֣ר · who pass
    Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.
  26. Jeremiah 51:43יַעֲבֹ֥ר · passes through
    Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
  27. Lamentations 1:12עֹ֣בְרֵי · you who pass by
    Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
  28. Lamentations 2:15עֹ֣בְרֵי · who pass by
    All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
  29. Lamentations 3:44מֵעֲב֖וֹר · can pass through
    You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
  30. Lamentations 4:21תַּעֲבָר־ · will pass
    So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.
  31. Ezekiel 5:1וְהַעֲבַרְתָּ֥ · and shave
    “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
  32. Ezekiel 5:14עוֹבֵֽר׃ · who pass by
    I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
  33. Ezekiel 5:17יַעֲבָר־ · will sweep
    I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
  34. Ezekiel 9:4עֲבֹר֙ · Go
    “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
  35. Ezekiel 9:5עִבְר֥וּ · Follow him
    And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!
  36. Ezekiel 14:15אַעֲבִ֥יר; עוֹבֵ֔ר · passing through it
    Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,
  37. Ezekiel 14:17תַּעֲבֹ֣ר · pass
    Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,
  38. Ezekiel 16:6וָאֶעֱבֹ֤ר · Then I passed
    Then I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I said to you, ‘Live!’
  39. Ezekiel 16:8וָאֶעֱבֹ֨ר · Then I passed
    Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.
  40. Ezekiel 16:15עוֹבֵ֖ר · who passed by
    But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.
  41. Ezekiel 16:21בְּהַעֲבִ֥יר · through the fire
    You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.
  42. Ezekiel 16:25עוֹבֵ֑ר · who passed by
    At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.
  43. Ezekiel 20:26בְּהַעֲבִ֖יר · the sacrifice
    And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.
  44. Ezekiel 20:31בְּֽהַעֲבִיר֩
    When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!
  45. Ezekiel 20:37וְהַעֲבַרְתִּ֥י · I will make you pass
    I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
  46. Ezekiel 23:37הֶעֱבִ֥ירוּ · in the fire
    For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.
  47. Ezekiel 29:11תַעֲבָר־ · will pass
    No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.