Strong's Hebrew · H5676

H5676 ʻêber

עֵבֶר

ay'-ber

side

ʻêber appears 90 times in Scripture, including Genesis 50:10 and Exodus 25:37. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

properly, a region across; but used only adverbially (with or without a preposition) on the opposite side (especially of the Jordan; ususally meaning the east)

In the King James Version

× against, beyond, by, × from, over, passage, quarter, (other, this) side, straight.

Derivation

from H5674 (עָבַר);

Appears 90 times in Scripture

Exodus 39:19

“They made two more gold rings and attached them to the other two corners of the breastpiece, on the inside edge next to the ephod.”

Deuteronomy 1:1

“These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.”

Exodus 28:26

“Make two more gold rings and attach them to the other two corners of the breastpiece, on the inside edge next to the ephod.”

Exodus 25:37

“Make seven lamps and set them up on the lampstand so that they illuminate the area in front of it.”

Genesis 50:11

“When the Canaanites of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians.” Thus the place across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim.”

Exodus 32:15

“Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.”

Genesis 50:10

“When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.”

Numbers 32:19

“Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.””

Numbers 22:1

“Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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Strong's concordance glosses from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0). Scripture quotations are from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain.

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