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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. 2 Kings 2:14וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֖ר · crossed over
    Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. And when he had struck the waters, they parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.
  2. 2 Kings 4:8וַיַּעֲבֹ֧ר · went; עָבְר֔וֹ · he would pass by
    One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.
  3. 2 Kings 4:9עֹבֵ֥ר · comes our way
    Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
  4. 2 Kings 4:31עָבַ֣ר · went on
    Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
  5. 2 Kings 6:9מֵעֲבֹ֖ר · to pass by
    Then the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Be careful not to pass by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.”
  6. 2 Kings 6:26עֹבֵ֖ר · was passing by
    As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
  7. 2 Kings 6:30עֹבֵ֣ר · passed by
    When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And as he passed by on the wall, the people saw the sackcloth under his clothes next to his skin.
  8. 2 Kings 8:21וַיַּעֲבֹ֤ר · crossed over
    So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night. His troops, however, fled to their homes.
  9. 2 Kings 12:4עוֹבֵ֔ר · the census
    Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.
  10. 2 Kings 14:9וַֽתַּעֲבֹ֞ר · came along
    But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.
  11. 2 Kings 16:3הֶעֱבִ֣יר · sacrificed
    Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  12. 2 Kings 17:17וַֽ֠יַּעֲבִירוּ · They sacrificed
    They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
  13. 2 Kings 18:12וַיַּעַבְרוּ֙ · but violated
    This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant—all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded—and would neither listen nor obey.
  14. 2 Kings 21:6וְהֶעֱבִ֤יר · He sacrificed
    He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
  15. 2 Kings 23:10לְהַעֲבִ֨יר · could sacrifice
    He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.
  16. 1 Chronicles 12:15עָבְר֤וּ · crossed
    These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.
  17. 1 Chronicles 19:17וַיַּעֲבֹ֣ר · crossed
    When this was reported to David, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan, advanced toward the Arameans, and arrayed for battle against them. When David lined up to engage them in battle, they fought against him.
  18. 1 Chronicles 21:8הַֽעֲבֶר־ · to take away
    Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
  19. 1 Chronicles 29:30עָבְר֤וּ · came
    …together with all the details of his reign, his might, and the circumstances that came upon him and Israel and all the kingdoms of the lands.
  20. 2 Chronicles 7:21עֹבֵ֥ר · who pass
    And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
  21. 2 Chronicles 15:8וַיַּעֲבֵ֤ר · and removed
    When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.
  22. 2 Chronicles 18:23עָבַ֧ר · when He departed
    Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”
  23. 2 Chronicles 21:9וַיַּֽעֲבֹ֤ר · crossed
    So Jehoram crossed into Edom with his officers and all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night.
  24. 2 Chronicles 24:20עֹבְרִ֜ים · transgress
    Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”
  25. 2 Chronicles 25:18וַֽתַּעֲבֹ֞ר · came along
    But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.
  26. 2 Chronicles 30:5לְהַעֲבִ֨יר · to circulate
    So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem. For they had not observed it in great numbers as prescribed.
  27. 2 Chronicles 30:10עֹבְרִ֨ים · traveled
    And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but the people scorned and mocked them.
  28. 2 Chronicles 33:6הֶעֱבִ֨יר · sacrificed
    He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
  29. 2 Chronicles 35:23הַעֲבִיר֔וּנִי · Take me away
    There the archers shot King Josiah, who said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded!”
  30. 2 Chronicles 35:24וַיַּֽעֲבִירֻ֨הוּ · took him
    So his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. And Josiah was buried in the tomb of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.
  31. 2 Chronicles 36:22וַיַּֽעֲבֶר־ · to send
    In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
  32. Ezra 1:1וַיַּֽעֲבֶר־ · to send
    In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
  33. Ezra 10:7וַיַּעֲבִ֨ירוּ · was issued
    And a proclamation was issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem.
  34. Nehemiah 2:7יַעֲבִיר֔וּנִי · they will grant me safe passage
    I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.
  35. Nehemiah 2:14וָאֶֽעֱבֹר֙ · Then I went on; לַעֲבֹ֥ר · to get through
    Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;
  36. Nehemiah 8:15וְיַעֲבִ֨ירוּ · and spread [it]
    …and that they should proclaim this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”
  37. Nehemiah 9:11וַיַּֽעַבְר֥וּ · and they crossed
    You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
  38. Esther 1:19יַעֲב֑וֹר · be repealed
    So if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and that her royal position shall be given to a woman better than she.
  39. Esther 3:3עוֹבֵ֔ר · disobey
    Then the royal servants at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”
  40. Esther 4:17וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֖ר · went
    So Mordecai went and did all that Esther had instructed him.
  41. Esther 8:2הֶֽעֱבִיר֙ · he had recovered
    The king removed the signet ring he had recovered from Haman and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over the estate of Haman.
  42. Esther 8:3לְהַֽעֲבִיר֙ · to revoke
    And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.
  43. Esther 9:27יַעֲב֔וֹר · fail
    …the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
  44. Esther 9:28יַֽעַבְרוּ֙ · fail [to be observed]
    These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.
  45. Job 6:15יַעֲבֹֽרוּ׃ · that overflow
    But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,
  46. Job 7:21וְתַעֲבִ֪יר · and take away
    Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
  47. Job 9:11יַעֲבֹ֣ר · to pass
    Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him.
  48. Job 11:16עָבְר֣וּ · gone by
    For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.