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Hebrew adjective · H5787

עִוֵּר

ivveriv-vare'

blind

26 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʻivvêr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5787is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 20
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5787

blind (literally or figuratively)

The King James renders it: blind (men, people).

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

ivver is rendered "blind". It stands 26 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Eleven of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 4:11And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
  • The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.

The first use

And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

Exodus 4:11עִוֵּ֑ר

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eleven of the word's twenty-six uses are in Isaiah.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • blind14
  • a blind4
  • the blind3
  • like the blind2
  • and blind1
  • and O blind1
  • to the blind1

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 26, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

20 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

  • עִוֵּר֙3
  • עִוֵּ֔ר2
  • עִוֵּ֖ר2
  • עִוֵּ֣ר2
  • עִוְרִ֗ים2
  • הָעִוֵּר֙1
  • הַעִוְרִ֤ים1
  • הַ֣עִוְרִ֔ים1
  • וְהַעִוְרִ֖ים1
  • וְעִוֵּ֖ר1
  • כַֽעִוְרִים֙1
  • כַּֽעִוְרִ֔ים1

and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · masculine singular11HAamsa
  • adjective · masculine plural6HAampa
  • preposition with the article + adjective · masculine plural2HRd/Aampa
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural2HTd/Aampa
  • adjective · feminine plural1HAafpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular1HC/Aamsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural1HC/Td/Aampa
  • preposition with the article + adjective · masculine singular1HRd/Aamsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular1HTd/Aamsa

Exodus

one use
  • And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

    Exodus 4:11

    • עִוֵּ֑רʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: blind

Leviticus

two uses
  • You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.

    Leviticus 19:14

    • עִוֵּ֔רʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: a blind
  • No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;

    Leviticus 21:18

    • עִוֵּר֙ʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: blind

Deuteronomy

three uses
  • But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

    Deuteronomy 15:21

    • עִוֵּ֔רʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • ‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

    Deuteronomy 27:18

    • עִוֵּ֖רʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: a blind
  • and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.

    Deuteronomy 28:29

    • הָעִוֵּר֙haiverthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the blind

2 Samuel

three uses
  • Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.”

    2 Samuel 5:6

    • הַעִוְרִ֤יםhaivrimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the blind
  • On that day he said, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must use the water shaft to reach the lame and blind who are despised by David.” That is why it is said, “The blind and the lame will never enter the palace.”

    2 Samuel 5:8

    • הַ֣עִוְרִ֔יםhaivrimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the blind
    • עִוֵּ֣רʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: a blind

Job

one use
  • I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

    Job 29:15

    • לַֽעִוֵּ֑רlaiverpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to the blind

Psalms

one use
  • the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.

    Psalms 146:8

    • עִוְרִ֗יםʾivrimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: blind

Isaiah

eleven uses
  • On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

    Isaiah 29:18

    • עִוְרִ֖יםʾivrimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

    Isaiah 35:5

    • עִוְרִ֑יםʾivrimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

    Isaiah 42:7

    • עִוְר֑וֹתivrotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: blind
  • I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

    Isaiah 42:16

    • עִוְרִ֗יםʾivrimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!

    Isaiah 42:18

    • וְהַעִוְרִ֖יםvehaivrimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and O blind
  • Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?

    Isaiah 42:19

    • עִוֵּר֙ʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: blind
    • עִוֵּר֙ʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: blind
    • וְעִוֵּ֖רveiverconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and blind
  • Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.

    Isaiah 43:8

    • עִוֵּ֖רʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.

    Isaiah 56:10

    • עִוְרִ֤יםʾivrimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

    Isaiah 59:10

    • כַֽעִוְרִים֙khaivrimpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: like the blind

Jeremiah

one use
  • Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!

    Jeremiah 31:8

    • עִוֵּ֣רʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: blind

Lamentations

one use
  • They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

    Lamentations 4:14

    • עִוְרִים֙ʾivrimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: blind

Zephaniah

one use
  • I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

    Zephaniah 1:17

    • כַּֽעִוְרִ֔יםkaivrimpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: like the blind

Malachi

one use
  • When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.

    Malachi 1:8

    • עִוֵּ֤רʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: a blind

The letters

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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