Judges 12:5
King James Version
6 Jun 2026
“And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;”
עָבַר
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
מַעֲבָר
the fords of
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מַעֲבָר
a crossing-place (of a river, a ford; of a mountain, a pass); abstractly, a transit, i.e. (figuratively) overwhelming
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גִּלְעָד
Gilead
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גִּלְעָד
Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites
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פָּלִיט
the fugitives of
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פָּלִיט
a refugee
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