maavar · ford

What it means

maavar (מַעֲבָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ford”.

A shallow place where a river is crossed; also a mountain pass.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A shallow place to cross a river.
2. A narrow way between hills, through which one passes and which is watched.
3. The blow of a rod that passes and falls on someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fords ×6
• pass ×2
• ford ×1
• passes ×1
• passing ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 32:22

  He rose that night and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

• Joshua 2:7

  So the men pursued them by the way to the Jordan as far as the fords, and they shut the gate after the pursuers had gone out after them.

• Judges 3:28

  He said to them, “Follow me, for YHWH has given your enemies, Moab, into your hand.” They went down after him, captured the fords of the Jordan toward Moab, and did not let anyone cross.

• Judges 12:5

  Gilead took the fords of the Jordan against Ephraim; and it would happen that when the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me cross,” the men of Gilead would say to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” And he would say, “No.”

• Judges 12:6

  Then they would say to him, “Say, please, ‘Shibboleth.’” And he would say, “Sibboleth,” for he could not say it that way. Then they would seize him and slaughter him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time, of Ephraim, forty-two thousand.

• 1 Samuel 13:23

  The post of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

• 1 Samuel 14:4

  Between the passes by which Jonathan sought to cross over to the post of the Philistines, there was a tooth of rock on one side and a tooth of rock on the other side; the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

• Isaiah 10:29

  They have crossed the pass; “Geba is a lodging for us”; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.

• Isaiah 16:2

  And it will be like a wandering bird, a nest cast out: the daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

• Isaiah 30:32

  And every passing of the appointed staff that YHWH lays upon him will be with tambourines and with lyres; and in battles of brandishing he will fight against them.

• Jeremiah 51:32

  and the fords are seized, and the marshes they have burned with fire, and the men of war are terrified.