Lexical Summary avar: to make blind, blind Original Word: עָוַרTransliteration: avar Phonetic Spelling: (aw-var') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to make blind, blind Meaning: to make blind, blind Strong's Concordance blind, put out A primitive root (rather denominatively from owr through the idea of a film over the eyes); to blind -- blind, put out. See also ayir. see HEBREW owr see HEBREW ayir Brown-Driver-Briggs H5786. avar [עָוַר] verb Pi`el make blind, blind (original meaning of √ dubious; Thes עור = dig (Arabic etc. cave); HalRŠJ xi, 67 compare עוֺר skin, whence blindness as cataract; — Aramaic adjective עֲוִיר, blind, Pa`el עַוַּר, = Hebrew Pi`el; Arabic be one-eyed, Ethiopic be blind Di995); — Pi`el Perfect3masculine singular עִוֵּר 2 Kings 25:7, with עֵינֵי put out the eyes of = Jeremiah 39:7 = 52:11; Imperfect3masculine singular יְעַוֵּר figurative, Exodus 23:8 (E) a bribe blindeth, with accusative of person (ᵐ5 ⅏ insert עֵינֵי); Deuteronomy 16:19, with עֵינֵי. |
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