עִוֵּר
iv.ver
“blind”
Definition
blind (literally or figuratively)
intensive from H5786 (עָוַר);
- blind 1a) blind (physically) 1b) blind (fig.)
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logos (G3056)
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Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
H:A
Hebrew Adjective
Occurrences
עִוֵּר appears 23 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.”
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.
to open the eyes of the blind,to bring prisoners out of the dungeonand those sitting in darknessout from the prison house.
Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind,and who have ears but are deaf.
I served as eyes to the blindand as feet to the lame.
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