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To pass

עָבַרStrong’s H5674

avar (a-var)

Appears in 493 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Avar is the Hebrew word usually translated “about to pass over”, “passes by” and “it passes on”. It appears in 493 verses of the Old Testament.

“Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.”
Daniel 9:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. To pass over or by or through, alienate, bring, carry, do away, take, take away, transgress(Qal)
  2. To be angry, arrogant
  3. To be arrogant
How it's translated
  • about to pass over 20
  • passes by 14
  • and it passes on 12
  • and he passed over 11
  • pass over 10
  • and he passed on 10
  • and they passed over 9
  • passing by 9

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Joshua 49
  • Deuteronomy 44
  • 2 Samuel 37
  • Psalms 33
  • Numbers 31
  • Isaiah 30

36 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 493 verses, by book
Ruth 2
2:84:1
1 Chronicles 4
12:1519:1721:829:30
Ezra 2
1:110:7
Nehemiah 4
2:72:148:159:11
Ecclesiastes 1
11:10
Song of Solomon 5
2:113:45:55:65:13
Lamentations 4
1:122:153:444:21
Joel 1
3:17
Jonah 2
2:33:6
Habakkuk 2
1:113:10
Zephaniah 3
2:22:153:6
Hebrew dictionary

עָבַר avar · to pass

1) to pass over or by or through, alienate, bring, carry, do away, take, take away, transgress 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to pass over, cross, cross over, pass over, march over, overflow, go over 1a2) to pass beyond 1a3) to pass through, traverse 1a3a) passers-through (participle) 1a3b) to pass through (the parts of victim in covenant) 1a4) to pass along, pass by, overtake and pass, sweep by 1a4a) passer-by (participle) 1a4b) to be past, be over 1a5) to pass on, go on, pass on before, go in advance of, pass along, travel, advance 1a6) to pass away 1a6a) to emigrate, leave (one's territory) 1a6b) to vanish …

עָבַר avar · be angry

to be angry, arrogant

עָבַר avar · be arrogant

to be arrogant

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “pass” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

P'ASS, verb intransitive

[Eng. pat, and as a noun, a pass a defile, an ambling, pace; passen, to be fit, to suit; Latin patior, whence passion, to suffer, and peto, competo, in the sense of fit; Gr. to walk or step, to suffer; The word pass coincides with Latin passus, a step, and this is from pando, Latin passus, a step, and this is from pando, to extend; n being casual, the original word was pado.

  1. To move, in almost any manner; to go; to proceed from one place to another.
  2. To move from one state to another; to alter or change, or to be changed in condition; as, to pass from health to sickness; to pass from just to unjust.
  3. To vanish; to disappear; to be lost.
  4. To be spent; to go on or away progressively.
All definitions and other forms of “pass”
  1. To die; to depart from life. [Little used.]
  2. To be in any state; to undergo; with under; as, to pass under the rod.
  3. To be enacted; to receive the sanction of a legislative house or body by a majority of votes.
  4. To be current; to gain reception or to be generally received.
  5. To be regarded; to be received in opinion or estimation.
  6. To occur; to be present; to take place; as, to notice what passes in the mind.
  7. To be done.
  8. To determine; to give judgment or sentence.
  9. To thrust; to make a push in fencing or fighting.
  10. To omit; to suffer to go unheeded or neglected.
  11. To move through any duct or opening; as, substances in the stomach that will not pass not be converted into ailment.
  12. To percolate; to be secreted; as juices that pass from the glands into the mouth.
  13. To be in a tolerable state.
  14. To be transferred from one owner to another.
  15. To go beyond bounds.
  16. To run or extend; as a line or other thing.
  17. To be spent; to be lost.

P'ASS, verb transitive

To go beyond. The sun has passed the age of frivolousness.

  1. To go through or over; as, to pass a river.
  2. To spend; to live through; as, to pass time; to pass the night in revelry, and the day in sleep.
  3. To cause to move; to send; as, to pass the bottle from one guest to another; to pass a pauper from one town to another; to pass a rope round a yard; to pass the blood from the right to the left ventricle of the heart.
  4. To cause to move hastily.
  5. To transfer from one owner to another; to sell or assign; as, to pass land from A to B by deed; to pass a note or bill.
  6. To strain; to cause to percolate; as, to pass wine through a filter.
  7. To utter; to pronounce; as, to pass compliments; to pass sentence or judgment; to pass censure on another's works.
  8. To procure or cause to go.
  9. To put an end to.
  10. To omit; to neglect either to do or to mention.
  11. To transcend; to transgress or go beyond; as, to pass the bounds of moderation.
  12. To admit; to allow; to approve and receive as valid or just; as, to pass an account at the war-office.
  13. To approve or sanction by a constitutional or legal majority of votes; as, the house of representatives passed the bill.
  14. To enact; to carry through all the forms necessary to give validity; as, the legislature passed the bill into a law.
  15. To impose fraudulently; as, she passed the child on her husband for a boy.
  16. To practice artfully; to cause to succeed; as, to pass a trick on one.
  17. To surpass; to excel; to exceed.
  18. To thrust; to make a push in fencing.
  19. To overlook; to excuse; to forgive; not to censure or punish; as, to pass by a crime or fault.
  20. To neglect; to disregard.
  21. To omit; to overlook or disregard.

P'ASS, noun

A narrow passage, entrance or avenue; a narrow or difficult place of entrance and exit; as a pass between mountains.

  1. A passage; a road.
  2. Permission to pass to go or to come; a license to pass; a passport.
  3. An order for sending vagrants or impotent persons to their place of abode.
  4. In fencing and fighting, a thrust; a push; attempt to stab or strike; as, to make a pass at an antagonist.
  5. State; condition or extreme case; extremity.

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.