King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5786
Transliteration: avar
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-var')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to make blind, blind
Meaning: to make blind, blind
Word 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.