עבר

עבר • (ʿāḇar)

1. to pass over, to cross over

Cognate to Arabic عَبَرَ‎ (ʕabara).

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עָבַר • (ʕɔḇar, avár) third-singular masculine past (pa'al construction)

1. (transitive) to pass, to cross
2. (intransitive, of time) to pass
   • 2008, Aya Korem (lyrics and music), “אוטוביוגרפיה [Otobiyográfya, Autobiography]”, in שפה זרה [Safá zará, Foreign Language]:

     ‏עברו שלושה שבועות ושלחתי מכתב
     כדי שאמא תדע מה קרה‎

     Arvú shloshá shavu'ót veshalákhti mikhtáv
     Kedéi she'íma tedá ma kará

     Three weeks passed and I sent a letter
     So that my mother would know what happened.

3. (transitive, of time) to spend, to pass
   • 2011, Nathan Goshen (lyrics and music), “לילות [Leilót, Nights]”:

     ‏לילות עברתי בלעדייך‎

     Leilót avárti bil'adáyich

     I spent nights without you

4. (transitive) to pass, to not fail a test

   ‏הצלחתי לעבור את המבחן כי למדתי.‎‎

   hitslákhti la'avór ét hamivkhán kí lamád'ti.

   I managed to pass the test because I studied.

5. (intransitive) to move (change residence)

   ‏הם עברו לעיר שגרתי בה.‎‎ ― hém avrú la'ír shegárti báh. ― They moved to the city I lived in.

   ‏לא רוצים לעבור לשעון קיץ במדינות רבות.‎‎

   lo rotsím la'avór lesha'ón káyits bimdinót rabót.

   People do not want to change (lit. move) to summer time in many countries.

6. (transitive) to undergo, experience, be subjected to

   ‏אני עובר ניתוח ביום שני.‎‎

   aní ovér nitúakh beyóm shení.

   I'm having surgery on Monday.

   ‏היא עברה תקיפה מינית.‎‎

   hi avrá tkifá minít.

   She was sexually assaulted.

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1. The past.

עֵבֶר • ('éver) m [pattern: קֵטֶל]

1. side, direction, way
2. (Biblical Hebrew, usually in the construct state and with a preposition) the other side [of], the region beyond or across from
   • Deuteronomy 1:1, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     ‏אֵלֶּה הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר מֹשֶׁה אֶל־כׇּל־יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן‎

     'éle had'varím 'ashér dibér moshé 'el-kol-yisra'él b'éver hayardén
     ʾḗlle haddəḇārīm ʾăšer dibbēr mōše ʾel-kol-yiśrāʾēl bəʿḗḇer hayyardēn

     These are the words which Moses spoke unto all Israel beyond the Jordan

• לְעֵבֶר‎

עֻבָּר • ('ubar) m

1. defective spelling of עובר‎ (“embryo, unborn baby”)

עִבֵּר • (ʿibēr/'iber) third-singular masculine past (pi'el construction)

1. defective spelling of עיבר‎

עֵבֶר • ('éver) m [pattern: קֵטֶל]

1. Eber

• עִבְרִי‎ (ivrí)

• H5674 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• בער‎, ערב‎, רבע‎, רעב‎