אָבַר
to fly
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H82 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job 1 verse
About this entry
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אבר — transliterated ʼâbar — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to fly.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Job. It occurs only once, in Job 39:26. It shares a root with אביר and אבר. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H82 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Job 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Fly 1×
- American Standard Version: Soareth 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Take flight 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Does 1×, Soar 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H82 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H82 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H82 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H82 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Hiphil) to fly (to move wings)
Word origin
[ אָבַר ] vb. denom. Hiph. fly (= move pinions ); of hawk יַאֲבֶר־נֵץ Jb 39:28.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אבר
- or יבר Hif. הוֹבִיר, v. בּוּר
אָבַר
- (√אב, v. אבב; cmp. גבר, חבר) to be bent, pressed, thick.
- 1. to strengthen, harden (cmp. אמץ). Snh. 109ᵇ (play on Abiram, Num. XVI, 1) שאִי׳ לבו מ׳ וכ׳ Ms. M. (Rashi לבבו, ed. עצמו) he hardened his heart against repentance. e.g. Numbers 16:1
- 2. (denom. of אֵבֶר) to measure wings, to define city limits, for Sabbath distances, in cases of wing-like projections beyond the line. Erub. V, 1 כיצד מְאַבְּרִין (accord. to Rab’s spelling, while Sam. read מְעַבְּרִין, v. Y. ib. 22ᵇ, Bab. ib. 53ᵃ) how do we measure outskirts of a city in order to draw the Sabbath line?; v. etymol. definit. Y. a. Babl. ll. cc. a. Y. Ber. VII, 12ᶜ top.
- 3. (b. h. Hif.) to soar, take wings. Gen. R. s. 42 (play on Shemeber, Gen. XIV, 2) שמְאַבֵּר וכ׳ Ar. s. v. שמאבר (ed. שהיה פורח) he took wings to fly and obtain wealth. e.g. Genesis 14:2
אֲבַר
- Ithpe. אִתְאֲבַר (v. next w. a. foreg.) to be winged, to soar. Targ. Job XXXIX, 29.
אֵבֶר
- wing, v. אָבַר; cmp. כַּף,
- 1. limb, part.—א׳ מן החי a part cut off from a living animal. Ḥull. 101ᵇ; a. fr.
- 2. membrum genitale. Snh. 107ᵃ. Y. Keth. V, 30ᵇ
- 3. town quarter, projecting outskirts (v. אָבַרPi. 2).—א׳ א׳ limb by limb; piecemeal. Sabb. 40ᵃ. Y. Yoma VI, 43ᵈ bot. Koh. R. to X, 15.—Pl. אֵבָרִים, אֵיבָרִים, אֵיבָרִין limbs, parts (of an animal). Shek. VII, 3 meat found אי׳ in entire limbs (opp. חתיכות cut slices). Sabb. 82ᵇ אינה מטמאה לא׳ Ms. M. (ed. לא׳ אינה) does not make unclean when dismembered. Kel. XVIII, 9 (parts of a bedstead).—א׳ א׳ as sing. Ḥull. 11ᵇ. Treat. S’maḥ. II, 12.—Ber. I, 1 the fat וא׳ and other pieces of the daily offerings. Ohol. I, 8 רמ"ח א׳ 248 limbs (joints).
- 4. balance of a load, ballast. Sabb. 154ᵇ, v. חֶבֶר.—Ch. אֵיבְרָא.
אֲבָר
- (v. אָבַר; b. h. lead. Snh. 52ᵃ פתילה של א׳ a string (bar) of lead. Ḥull. 8ᵃ א׳ מעיקרו lead directly from the mine (hot). Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᵇ bot. Kel. XIV, 5 הא׳ שבצד וכ׳ the lead hanging down from the neck of the animal (as ornament or mark). Git. 19ᵃ; Sabb. 104ᵇ כתבו בא׳ if he wrote the document with lead (solution); a. fr.
אֲבָר ²
- Targ. Ex. XV, 10. Targ. Y. Lev. XX, 14; a. e.—Snh. 64ᵃ שדיוהו וכ׳ cast ye him into a kettle (of lead) וכסיוהו וכ׳ and cover him with lead (or heavy load; ed. שדיוה incorr.; Ms. M. omits דאברא; oth. var. v. Rabb. D. S. a. l.). Git. 19ᵃ בא׳ (writing) with lead pencil, במיא דא׳ with a solution of lead.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H82, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
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