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 39Old Testament books
- 20spellings
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.
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.
The words it stands beside
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?
- 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.
- עִוֵּ֔רʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: a blind
No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;
- 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.
- עִוֵּ֔רʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: blind
‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- עִוְרִ֖יםʾivrimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: blind
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
- 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.
- 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.
- עִוְרִ֗יםʾivrimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: blind
Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- עִוֵּ֤רʾiveradjective · masculine singulartagged: a 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 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.
