Hebrew verb · H5786
עָוַר
avaraw-var'
to blind
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâvar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5786is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5786
to blind
The King James renders it: blind, put out. See also H5895 (עַיִר).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
avar is rendered "to blind". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 23:8Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
Exodus 23:8יְעַוֵּ֣ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he made blind3
- it makes blind2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- עִוֵּ֑ר2
- יְעַוֵּ֣ר1
- יְעַוֵּר֙1
- עִוֵּ֔ר1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVpp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpi3ms
Exodus
one use
Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
- יְעַוֵּ֣רyeaververb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it makes blind
Deuteronomy
one use
Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
- יְעַוֵּר֙yeaververb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it makes blind
2 Kings
one use
And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
- עִוֵּ֔רʾiververb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made blind
Jeremiah
two uses
Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
- עִוֵּ֑רʾiververb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made blind
Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.
- עִוֵּ֑רʾiververb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made blind
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.