iver · blind

What it means

iver (עִוֵּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “blind”.

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. Someone who cannot see.
2. Someone who does not understand the truth.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×2
• Deuteronomy×3
• 2 Samuel×3
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×11
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Malachi×1

• Exodus 4:11

  YHWH said to him, “Who gave a mouth to a human being? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, YHWH?

• Leviticus 19:14

  You shall not curse a deaf person and before a blind person you shall not put a stumbling block; but you shall fear your Elohim. I am YHWH.

• Leviticus 21:18

  For no man who has a defect shall approach: a man who is blind, or lame, or disfigured, or deformed,

• Deuteronomy 15:21

  But if it has a defect, if it is lame or blind, any bad defect, you shall not sacrifice it to YHWH your Elohim.

• Deuteronomy 27:18

  ‘Cursed be he who misleads a blind man on the way.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 28:29

  And you will be groping at noon, as the blind man gropes in the darkness, and you will not prosper your ways; and you will be only oppressed and robbed all the days, and there will be no one to save you.

• 2 Samuel 5:6

  The king and his men went to Jerusalem, against the Jebusite, who lived in the land; and he said to David, “You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will turn you away,” as if to say, “David will not come in here.”

• 2 Samuel 5:8

  David said on that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusite, let him reach through the channel the lame and the blind, hated by the soul of David.” Therefore they say, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”

• Job 29:15

  Eyes I was to the blind, and feet to the lame was I.

• Psalms 146:8

  YHWH opens the eyes of the blind; YHWH makes straight those who are bent down; YHWH loves the righteous;

• Isaiah 29:18

  And on that day the deaf will hear the words of a book, and out of gloom and out of darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

• Isaiah 35:5

  Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

• Isaiah 42:7

  to open blind eyes, to bring out from confinement the prisoner, from the prison house those who dwell in darkness.

• Isaiah 42:16

  And I will lead the blind by a way that they have not known; in paths that they have not known I will make them tread; I will make the dark places before them into light, and the crooked places into a plain. These things I will do, and I will not abandon them.

• Isaiah 42:18

  You deaf, hear; and you blind, look to see.

• Isaiah 42:19

  Who is blind but my servant, or deaf like my messenger whom I send? Who is blind like the one at peace with me, or blind like the servant of YHWH?

• Isaiah 43:8

  Bring out the people who are blind yet have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

• Isaiah 56:10

  His watchmen are blind, all of them; they do not know; all of them are mute dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, lovers of slumber.

• Isaiah 59:10

  We grope like the blind for the wall, and like those without eyes we grope; we stumble at noon as in the twilight; among the robust we are like the dead.

• Jeremiah 31:8

  Look, I am bringing them from the land of the north, and I will gather them from the far ends of the earth; among them the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and the one giving birth together; a great assembly will return here.

• Lamentations 4:14

  They wandered blind through the streets, defiled with blood, so that no one could touch their garments.

• Zephaniah 1:17

  “And I will bring distress on human beings, and they will walk like the blind, for against YHWH they have sinned; and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.”

• Malachi 1:8

  And when you offer a blind animal to sacrifice, there is no evil; and when you offer the lame and the sick, there is no evil. Present it, then, to your governor: will he accept you, or lift up your face? says YHWH Tsevaot.

And 3 more times.