Wing
אֵ֫בֶרStrong’s H0083ever (e-ver)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ever is the Hebrew word usually translated “wing” and “pinion”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.”
Meaning
- Pinion, wingof bird (dove, eagle) · of Babylonian king (fig.)
How it's translated
- wing 2
- pinion 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 40:31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
- Ezekiel 17:3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
Hebrew dictionary
אֵ֫בֶר ever · wing
1) pinion, wing 1a) of bird (dove, eagle) 1b) of Babylonian king (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WING, noun
- The limb of a fowl by which it flies.
- The limb of an insect by which it flies.
- In botany, the side petal of a papilionaceous corol; also, an appendage of seeds, by means of which they are wafted in the air and scattered; also, any membranous or leafy dilatation of a footstalk, or of the angles of a stem, branch or flower stalk, or of a calyx.
- Flight; passage by the wind; as, to be on the wind; to take wing
All definitions and other forms of “wing”
- Means of flying; acceleration.
- Motive or incitement of flight.
- The flank or extreme body or part of an army.
- Any side-piece.
- In gardening, a side-shoot.
- In architecture, a side-building, less than the main edifice.
- In fortification, the longer sides of hornworks, crown-works, etc.
- In a fleet, the ships on the extremities, when ranged in a line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- In a ship, the wings are those parts of the hold and orlop deck, which are nearest the sides.
- In Scripture, protection; generally in the plural. Psalms 63:7Exodus 19:4
WING, verb transitive
- To furnish with wings; to enable to fly or to move with celerity.
- To supply with side bodies; as on either side well winged.
- To transport by flight.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.