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Joshua 20:8
“And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5676 · Hebrew
- 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);
- KJV renderings
- [idiom] against, beyond, by, [idiom] from, over, passage, quarter, (other, this) side, straight.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- מֵ — preposition
- עֵ֜בֶר — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 92 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 50:10Genesis 50:11Exodus 25:37Exodus 28:26Exodus 32:15
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read עֵבֶר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.