Ford
מַעֲבָרStrong’s H4569maavar (ma-a-var)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maavar is the Hebrew word usually translated “fords of”, “ford of” and “fords”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.”
Meaning
- Ford, pass, passingford · pass · passing, sweep
How it's translated
- fords of 3
- ford of 1
- the fords 1
- pass of 1
- the passes 1
- pass 1
- fords 1
- blow of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 3
- Isaiah 3
- 1 Samuel 2
- Genesis 1
- Joshua 1
- Jeremiah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 2:7And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
- Judges 3:28And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
- Judges 12:5And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
- Judges 12:6Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
- 1 Samuel 13:23And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
- 1 Samuel 14:4And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
Hebrew dictionary
מַעֲבָר maavar · ford
1) ford, pass, passing 1a) ford 1b) pass 1c) passing, sweep
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ford” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FORD, noun
- A place in a river or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, or by wading.
- A stream; a current.
All definitions and other forms of “ford”
FORD, verb transitive
To pass or cross a river or other water by treading or walking on the bottom; to pass through water by wading; to wade through.
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.