Strong's Hebrew · H5676
עֵבֶר
ʻêber · ay'-ber
[idiom] against, beyond, by, [idiom] from, over, passage, quarter, (other, this) side, straight.
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)
Derivation
from H5674 (עָבַר);
Appears 90 times in Scripture
“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.”
“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.”
“Make two more gold rings and attach them to the other two corners of the breastpiece, on the inside edge next to the ephod.”
“Make seven lamps and set them up on the lampstand so that they illuminate the area in front of it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.””
“Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).