STRONGS NUMBER H5677


Word Summary
Eber: "region beyond", a descendant of Shem, also the name of several Israelites
Original Word: עֵבֵר
Transliteration: Eber
Phonetic Spelling: (ay'-ber)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "region beyond", a descendant of Shem, also the name of several Israelites
Meaning: Eber -- "region beyond", a descendant of Shem, also the name of several Israelites
Strong's Concordance
Eber, Heber

The same as eber; Eber, the name of two patriarchs and four Israelites -- Eber, Heber.

see HEBREW eber

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5677. Eber

II. עֵ֫בֶרproper name, masculine Eber (perhaps eponym of Hebrews, form inferred from עִבְרִי‎, compare references there); —

1 'son' of Shelah, and 'grandson' of Arpachshad Genesis 10:24 (J) = 1 Chronicles 1:18; Genesis 11:14-15, (P); 'father' of Peleg and Joktan 10:25 (J; with especially reference to Joktan 10:26 ff., i.e. to Arabians) = 1 Chronicles 1:19 (compare 1:20ff.), of Peleg specifically Genesis 11:16-17, (P; with especially reference to Abraham 11:26f.) compare 1 Chronicles 1:25 (see 1:27f.); in Genesis 10:21 (J) Shem is called כָּלבְּֿנֵיעֵֿבֶר אֲבִי‎; ᵐ5Εβερ. — ׳עNumbers 24:24 perhaps (si vera lectio) belongs not here ( = עִבְרִיםHebrews, ᵐ5Ἐβραίους, so Thes), but below I. עֵבֶר‎ = the (land) beyond (the river), "" אַשּׁוּר‎, so Di Kau.

2 a Gadite chief 1 Chronicles 5:13, ᵐ5Ωβηδ, ᵐ5L Εβερ.

3 Benjamite names:

a. 1 Chronicles 8:12, ᵐ5Ωβηδ, ᵐ5L Αβερ.

b. 1 Chronicles 8:22 (עֵבֶר‎ van d. H. Ginsb; עֶבֶד‎ Baer), ᵐ5Ωβδη, A Ωβηδ, ᵐ5L Αβερ.

4 a priest Nehemiah 12:20 ᵐ5L Αβεδ.