# מַעֲבָר (maavar)

Israeli respelling: ma-a-var. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4569. 11 Old Testament occurrences.

a crossing-place (of a river, a ford; of a mountain, a pass); abstractly, a transit, i.e. (figuratively) overwhelming

King James renderings: ford, place where...pass, passage.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/maavar-h4569

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 32:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/32/22) — And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
- [Joshua 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/7) — And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the…
- [Judges 3:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/3/28) — And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him,…
- [Judges 12:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/12/5) — And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said,…
- [Judges 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/12/6) — Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and s…
- [1 Samuel 13:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/13/23) — And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
- [1 Samuel 14:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/4) — And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a…
- [Isaiah 10:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/29) — They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
- [Isaiah 16:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/16/2) — For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
- [Isaiah 30:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/32) — And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battl…
- [Jeremiah 51:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/32) — And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.