Lexicon avar: to make blind, blind Original Word: עָוַרPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: avar Phonetic Spelling: (aw-var') Short Definition: blinded NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto make blind, blind NASB Translationblinded (2), blinds (2), put (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ עָוַר] verb Pi`el make blind, blind (original meaning of √ dubious; Thes עור = dig (Arabic  etc. cave); Hal RŠJ 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 Di 995); — Pi`el Perfect3masculine singular עִוֵּר 2 Kings 25:7, with עֵינֵי put out the eyes of = Jeremiah 39:7 = Jeremiah 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.
Strong's 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 |
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