עִוֵּר
ʻivvêr · iv-vare'
blind (literally or figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: intensive from H5786 (עָוַר);
blind (literally or figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: blind (men, people).
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
To see and know that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עִוֵּר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
26 occurrences · 26 OT · 0 NT · 20 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the blind7 · 27%
- of the blind2 · 8%
- who is blind2 · 8%
- or the blind1 · 4%
- a blind1 · 4%
- or blind1 · 4%
- be he that maketh the blind1 · 4%
- as the blind1 · 4%
- and the blind1 · 4%
- to the blind1 · 4%
- the eyes of the blind1 · 4%
- ye blind1 · 4%
- and blind1 · 4%
- are blind1 · 4%
- like the blind1 · 4%
- and with them the blind1 · 4%
- as blind1 · 4%
- like blind men1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.