Blindness
סַנְוֵרִיםStrong’s H5575sanver (san-ver)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sanver is the Hebrew word usually translated “sudden blindness”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.”
Meaning
- Sudden blindness
How it's translated
- with sudden blindness 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- 2 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
סַנְוֵרִים sanver · blindness
sudden blindness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “blindness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BLINDNESS, noun
Want of bodily sight; want of intellectual discernment; ignorance.
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.