the Third Week of Advent
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #5787 - עִוֵּר
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- blind
- blind (physically)
- blind (figuratively)
- Book
- Word
did not use
this Strong's Number
1526) rg (גהר GhR) AC: Dark CO: City AB: ?: The pictograph g is a picture of a rope with the extended meaning of darkness. The r is a picture of a man. Combined these mean "dark man" or an enemy. (eng: jungle - with the exchange of the j and y and the l and r)
A) rg (גהר GhR) AC: ? CO: City AB: ?
Nm ) rg (גהר GhR) - I. City: II. Enemy:[Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (7): city, enemy - Strongs: H6145 (עָר), H6146 (עָר)
J) rfg (גהור GhWR) AC: Dark CO: ? AB: ?
V) rfg (גהור GhWR) - I. Waken:To wake as to open the eyes from darkness. II. Blind:To become dark of site through blindness or the putting out of the eyes. KJV (86): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Piel) stir, awake, wake, raise, arise, master, put out, blind - Strongs: H5782 (עוּר), H5786 (עָוַר)
Nm) rfg (גהור GhWR) - Blind: A darkness of the eye. KJV (26): blind - Strongs: H5787 (עִוֵּר)
jm) nfrfg (גהורונ GhWRWN) - Blindness: KJV (3): blindness, blind - Strongs: H5788 (עַוֶּרֶת)
L) rgi (יגהר YGhR) AC: ? CO: Forest AB: ?: A dark place.
Nm) rgi (יגהר YGhR) - Forest: KJV (59): forest, wood, honeycomb - Strongs: H3264 (יַעוֹר), H3293 (יַעַר)
Nf1) ergi (יגהרה YGhRH) - Forest: KJV (2): forest - Strongs: H3295 (יַעֲרָה)
M) rig (גהיר GhYR) AC: ? CO: City AB: ?: A dark and wicked place.
Nm) ig (גהיר GhYR) - I. City: II. Colt:As dark in color. KJV (1097): city, town, colt, foal, ass - Strongs: H5892 (עָיַר), H5895 (עַיִר)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 literally, physically blind:
a. of men Exodus 4:11 (J; opposed to מִּקֵּחַ), 2 Samuel 5:6,8 (twice in verse); Leviticus 19:14 (H), Deuteronomy 27:18; Jeremiah 31:8; Job 29:15; in simile Deuteronomy 28:29; Zephaniah 1:17; Isaiah 59:10, compare Lamentations 4:14 (apposition); as adjective attribute ׳אִישׁ ע Leviticus 21:18 (H).
b. of sacrifice animal Deuteronomy 15:21; Malachi 1:8. 2 figurative,
a. of the helpless, groping Isaiah 29:18; Isaiah 35:5; Isaiah 42:16; Psalm 146:8; as adjective attribute, עֵינַיִםעִוְרוֺת Isaiah 42:7.
b. of the dull, unreceptive, Isaiah 42:18,19 (3t. in verse) (but Isaiah 42:19 c read חֵרֵשׁ q. v.); as adjective attributive עַם עִוֵּר Isaiah 43:8; as predicate Isaiah 56:10.
עִוֵּר . adj. blind, Exodus 4:11; Leviticus 19:14. Metaph. used of men who walk in the darkness of ignorance (Isaiah 29:18, 42:18, 19 Isaiah 42:19, 43:8 ), or of misery (Psalms 146:8).
I.