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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. Deuteronomy 4:21עָבְרִי֙ · cross
    The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  2. Deuteronomy 4:22עֹבֵ֖ר · be crossing; עֹֽבְרִ֔ים · shall cross over
    For I will not be crossing the Jordan, because I must die in this land. But you shall cross over and take possession of that good land.
  3. Deuteronomy 4:26עֹבְרִ֧ים · are crossing
    I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
  4. Deuteronomy 6:1עֹבְרִ֥ים · are about to enter
    These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
  5. Deuteronomy 9:1עֹבֵ֤ר · are about to cross
    Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
  6. Deuteronomy 9:3הָעֹבֵ֤ר · goes across
    But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.
  7. Deuteronomy 11:8עֹבְרִ֥ים · are crossing
    You shall therefore keep every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and possess the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
  8. Deuteronomy 11:11עֹבְרִ֥ים · are crossing
    But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
  9. Deuteronomy 11:31עֹבְרִ֣ים · are about to cross
    For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,
  10. Deuteronomy 12:10וַעֲבַרְתֶּם֮ · When you cross
    When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,
  11. Deuteronomy 17:2לַעֲבֹ֥ר · by transgressing
    If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant
  12. Deuteronomy 18:10מַעֲבִ֥יר · who sacrifices
    Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
  13. Deuteronomy 24:5יַעֲבֹ֥ר · be pressed into
    If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.
  14. Deuteronomy 26:13עָבַ֥רְתִּי · transgressed
    Then you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.
  15. Deuteronomy 27:2תַּעַבְר֣וּ · you cross
    And on the day you cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, set up large stones and coat them with plaster.
  16. Deuteronomy 27:3בְּעָבְרֶ֑ךָ · when you have crossed over
    Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
  17. Deuteronomy 27:4בְּעָבְרְכֶ֣ם · when you have crossed
    And when you have crossed the Jordan, you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am commanding you today, and you are to coat them with plaster.
  18. Deuteronomy 27:12בְּעָבְרְכֶ֖ם · When you have crossed
    “When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
  19. Deuteronomy 29:12לְעָבְרְךָ֗ · so that you may enter
    …so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
  20. Deuteronomy 29:16עָבַ֛רְנוּ · we passed; עֲבַרְתֶּֽם׃ · on the way [here]
    For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.
  21. Deuteronomy 30:13יַעֲבָר־ · will cross
    And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
  22. Deuteronomy 30:18עֹבֵר֙ · are crossing
    I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
  23. Deuteronomy 31:2תַעֲבֹ֖ר · cross
    …he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’
  24. Deuteronomy 31:3עֹבֵ֣ר · will cross over; עֹבֵ֣ר · will cross
    The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.
  25. Deuteronomy 31:13עֹבְרִ֧ים · are crossing
    Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
  26. Deuteronomy 32:47עֹבְרִ֧ים · are crossing
    For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
  27. Deuteronomy 34:4תַעֲבֹֽר׃ · cross into it
    And the LORD said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”
  28. Joshua 1:2עֲבֹ֜ר · [and] cross over
    “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.
  29. Joshua 1:11עִבְר֣וּ׀ · Go; עֹֽבְרִים֙ · will cross
    “Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for within three days you will cross the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.’”
  30. Joshua 1:14תַּעַבְר֨וּ · to cross over
    Your wives, your young children, and your livestock may remain in the land that Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But all your mighty men of valor must be armed for battle to cross over ahead of your brothers and help them,
  31. Joshua 2:23וַיַּעַבְרוּ֙ · and crossed [the river]
    Then the two men started back, came down from the hill country, and crossed the river. So they came to Joshua son of Nun and reported all that had happened to them.
  32. Joshua 3:1יַעֲבֹֽרוּ׃ · crossing over
    Early the next morning Joshua got up and left Shittim with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.
  33. Joshua 3:2וַיַּעַבְר֥וּ · went
    After three days the officers went through the camp
  34. Joshua 3:4עֲבַרְתֶּ֛ם · traveled
    But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.”
  35. Joshua 3:6וְעִבְר֖וּ · and go on
    And he said to the priests, “Take the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.
  36. Joshua 3:11עֹבֵ֥ר · will go
    Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go ahead of you into the Jordan.
  37. Joshua 3:14לַעֲבֹ֖ר · to cross
    So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.
  38. Joshua 3:16עָבְר֖וּ · crossed over
    …the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
  39. Joshua 3:17עֹֽבְרִים֙ · crossed over; לַעֲבֹ֖ר · had crossed
    The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.
  40. Joshua 4:1לַעֲב֖וֹר · crossing
    When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
  41. Joshua 4:3וְהַעֲבַרְתֶּ֤ם · carry
    …and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”
  42. Joshua 4:5עִ֠בְרוּ · Cross over
    …and said to them, “Cross over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of Israel,
  43. Joshua 4:7בְּעָבְרוֹ֙ · When it crossed
    …you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”
  44. Joshua 4:8וַיַּעֲבִר֤וּם · and they carried
    Thus the Israelites did as Joshua had commanded them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each tribe of Israel, just as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them to the camp, where they set them down.
  45. Joshua 4:10וַֽיַּעֲבֹֽרוּ׃ · across
    Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until the people had completed everything the LORD had commanded Joshua to tell them, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried across,