Quick Definition
side: beside
Strong's Definition
properly, a region across; but used only adverbially (with or without a preposition) on the opposite side (especially of the Jordan; ususally meaning the east)
Derivation: from H5674 (עָבַר);
KJV Usage: [idiom] against, beyond, by, [idiom] from, over, passage, quarter, (other, this) side, straight.
TWOT Reference: 1556a
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עֵ֫בֶר (e.ver) — side: beside. : side/beside 1) region beyond or across, side 1a) region across or beyond 1b) side, opposite side
עֵ֫בֶר (e.ver) — side: beyond. : ahead/beyond 1) region beyond or across, side 1a) region across or beyond 1b) side, opposite side
עֵ֫בֶר (e.ver) — side: west. : west 1) region beyond or across, side 1a) region across or beyond 1b) side, opposite side
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · עבר · עִבְרִי
Spatial Referents
side = part of an object facing a certain direction
EXO 28:26 · EXO 32:15 · EXO 39:19 · 1KI 5:4 · 1KI 7:20 · 1KI 7:30 · ISA 47:15 · JER 48:28 · JER 49:32
Spatial Referents
across, beyond = a referent to a space facing away from a vantage point, situated across a ravine, desert, stream, or the sea
GEN 50:10 · GEN 50:11 · NUM 21:13 · NUM 22:1 · NUM 32:19 · NUM 32:19 · NUM 32:32 · NUM 34:15 · NUM 35:14 · DEU 1:1 · DEU 1:5 · DEU 3:8 · DEU 3:20 · DEU 3:25 · DEU 4:41 · DEU 4:46 · DEU 4:47 · DEU 4:49 · DEU 11:30 · DEU 30:13 · DEU 30:13 · JOS 1:14 · JOS 1:15 · JOS 2:10 · JOS 5:1 · JOS 7:7 · JOS 9:1 · JOS 9:10 · JOS 12:1 · JOS 12:7 · JOS 13:8 · JOS 13:27 · JOS 13:32 · JOS 14:3 · JOS 17:5 · JOS 18:7 · JOS 20:8 · JOS 22:4 · JOS 22:7 · JOS 22:11 · JOS 24:2 · JOS 24:3 · JOS 24:8 · JOS 24:14 · JOS 24:15 · JDG 5:17 · JDG 7:25 · JDG 10:8 · JDG 11:18 · 1SA 14:1 · 1SA 14:4 · 1SA 14:4 · 1SA 14:40 · 1SA 14:40 · 1SA 26:13 · 1SA 31:7 · 1SA 31:7 · 2SA 10:16 · 1KI 4:12 · 1KI 5:4 · 1KI 5:4 · 1KI 14:15 · 1CH 6:63 · 1CH 12:38 · 1CH 19:16 · 1CH 26:30 · 2CH 20:2 · EZR 8:36 · NEH 2:7 · NEH 2:9 · NEH 3:7 · JOB 1:19 · ISA 7:20 · ISA 8:23 · ISA 18:1 · JER 25:22 · ZEP 3:10
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1 JOS 22:7 MT-K מעבר | MT-Q בְּעֵבֶר 2 JOS 24:15 MT-K בעבר | MT-Q מֵעֵבֶר
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
עֵ֫בֶר 91 n.m. region across or beyond, side region across or beyond anything
(Opposite) side, side
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