# H4569 מַעֲבָר

מַעֲבָר (maʻăbâr), Strong’s H4569: a crossing-place (of a river, a ford; of a mountain, a pass); abstractly, a transit, i.e. (figuratively) overwhelming KJV: ford, place where...pass, passage…

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

KJV: ford, place where...pass, passage.

Derived from [עָבַר ʻâbar](https://besorah.bible/word/H5674) (to cross over)

Occurs 11 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [מַעֲבָר] n.[m.] ford, pass, passing
- מַעֲבָרָה n.f
- מַעֲבָרָה n.f. ford, pass, passing

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 32:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=23) — He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of…
- [Joshua 2:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/2?v=7) — The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out…
- [Judges 3:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/3?v=28) — He said to them, “Follow me; for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” They followed him…
- [Judges 12:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/12?v=5) — The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, “Let me go…
- [Judges 12:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/12?v=6) — then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it…
- [1 Samuel 13:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/13?v=23) — The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
- [1 Samuel 14:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/14?v=4) — Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one…
- [Isaiah 10:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=29) — They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.
- [Isaiah 16:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/16?v=2) — For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
- [Isaiah 30:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/30?v=32) — Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which the LORD will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps…