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Lexicon :: Strong's H5676 - ʿēḇer

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עֵבֶר
Transliteration
ʿēḇer
Pronunciation
ay'-ber
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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TWOT Reference: 1556a

Strong’s Definitions

עֵבֶר ʻêber, ay'-ber; from H5674; properly, a region across; but used only adverbially (with or without a preposition) on the opposite side (especially of the Jordan; ususally meaning the east):—× against, beyond, by, × from, over, passage, quarter, (other, this) side, straight.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 91x

The KJV translates Strong's H5676 in the following manner: side (58x), beyond (21x), straight (3x), passage (2x), by (1x), from (1x), other (1x), against (1x), over (1x), quarter (1x), Strong's synonym (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 91x
The KJV translates Strong's H5676 in the following manner: side (58x), beyond (21x), straight (3x), passage (2x), by (1x), from (1x), other (1x), against (1x), over (1x), quarter (1x), Strong's synonym (1x).

  1. region beyond or across, side

    1. region across or beyond

    2. side, opposite side

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֵבֶר ʻêber, ay'-ber; from H5674; properly, a region across; but used only adverbially (with or without a preposition) on the opposite side (especially of the Jordan; ususally meaning the east):—× against, beyond, by, × from, over, passage, quarter, (other, this) side, straight.
STRONGS H5676: Abbreviations
I. עֵ֫בֶר 91 noun masculine1 Samuel 14:40 region across or beyond, side (on formation compare BaNB 144; compare especially Assyrian êbru, êbirtu, id., êbirtan, adverb beyond); — י׳ absolute 1 Samuel 14:4 +; construct Joshua 24:4 +; suffix עֶבְרוֺ Isaiah 47:15; plural construct עֶבְרֵי Isaiah 7:20; Jeremiah 48:28 (si vera lectio, see below); suffix עֲבָרָיו 1 Kings 5:4; Jeremiah 49:32 (read probably עֶבְרֵיהֶם, so Vrss), עֶבְרֵיהֶם Exodus 32:15; —
1. region across or beyond anything (usually wady, river, or sea), mostly with preposition:בְּעֵבֶר אַרְנוֺן Numbers 21:13 (JE) Judges 11:18, compare Jeremiah 25:22; הַיָּם אֶלעֿ׳ Deuteronomy 30:13b, מַעֵבֶר לַיָּם Deuteronomy 30:13a beyond the sea; לְנַהֲרֵיכֿוּשׁ מֵע׳ Isaiah 18:1, compare עַדמֵֿע׳ 1 Kings 4:12 (מִן on the side of, on, see מִן 1c; so usually with ע׳); but also (rarely) מֵע׳ from the other side of Zephaniah 3:10; Job 1:19; 2 Chronicles 20:2; absolute הַע׳ 1 Samuel 26:13 to the other side (that is, of a ravine; after וַיַּעֲבֹר); בְּעֵבֶר הָעֵמֶק 1 Samuel 31:7, read perhaps בְּעָרֵי הָע׳, so Klo Bu HPS; בְּעֶבְרֵי פִיפָֿ֑חַת Jeremiah 48:28 beyond the mouth of a chasm is dubious; Gie proposes בְּחֹרֵי כֵפֵי בַתֹּת in the rock-holes of the precipices; especially (chiefly Hexateuch, + 37 times) הַיַּרְדֵּן ע׳ (30 times), or (less often, Joshua 13:32 + 13 times), לַיַּרְדֵּן, לְיַרְדֵּן יְרֵחוֺ (only with מֵע׳), of either east Jordan (36 times) or west Jordan land (9 times) according to standpoint of speaker or writer:
A. east Jordan (from standpoint of writer) Genesis 50:10, 11 (J) Joshua 17:5 (JE) Deuteronomy 1:1, 5; Deuteronomy 4:41, 46, 47, 49; Joshua 1:14; Joshua 12:1; Joshua 13:8 (D), Numbers 22:1; Numbers 32:19; Numbers 34:15; Joshua 13:27, 32; Joshua 14:3; Joshua 20:8 (P), Judges 7:25; Judges 10:8; 1 Samuel 31:7; Isaiah 8:23; 1 Chronicles 6:63; 1 Chronicles 12:37; from standpoint of speaker, Joshua 7:7 (JE), Joshua 24:8 (E), Joshua 1:15; Joshua 2:10; Joshua 9:10; Joshua 18:7; Joshua 22:4 (D), Judges 5:17; in Numbers 35:14 (Moses speaks) it is land opposed to to Can., compare Numbers 32:32; in Deuteronomy 3:8 (Moses speaks) writer (D) ascribes his own standpoint to Moses; (often further topographical note is added, e.g. מִזְרָ֫חָה Deuteronomy 4:49 +, מִזְרַח הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ Joshua 1:15 +, etc.); אֶלעֵֿבֶר בְּנֵי יִשְׂר׳ Joshua 22:11 toward the region opposite the sons of Israel apparently also refers to east side (see Steuern on text).
B. West Jordan (9 times), from standpoint of speaker Deuteronomy 3:20, 25 (Moses), also Deuteronomy 11:30 (but here + מְכוֺא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ, and in all following some special designation of West), + יָ֫מָּה Joshua 5:1 (D; from standpoint of those just crossed), Joshua 12:7 (opposite East Joshua 12:1-6), Joshua 22:7 (id.; Kt מעבר, Qr בְּעֵבֶר), compare Joshua 9:1 (as Joshua 5:1); + וָהָ֑לְאָה Numbers 32:19a (opposite East Numbers 32:19b); in 1 Chronicles 26:30 מַעֲרָ֑בָה לַיַּר׳ מֵע׳ ע׳ seems = side (see below). Also הַנָּהָר בְּע׳ beyond the river (Euphrates) Joshua 24:2, 14, 15 (E; Kt Qr מֵע׳), מֵע׳ 2 Samuel 10:16 = 1 Chronicles 19:16 beyond, and 1 Kings 14:5 to the other side of (see מִן 1c); מֵע׳ from beyond the river only Joshua 24:3 (E), in all these = beyond the Euphrase eastward, from standpoint of those west of Euphrase; so plural בְּעֶבְרֵי הַנּ׳ Isaiah 7:20; possibly also ע׳ alone (si vera lectio) in the difficult passage Numbers 24:24; הַנָּהָר ע׳ = region beyond the river (Euphrase) westward (from standpoint of those in Babylonia or Persia) Nehemiah 2:7, 9; Nehemiah 3:7; Ezra 8:36; also 1 Kings 5:4 (twice in verse) (written in Babylonian; compare Biblical Aramaic עֲבַר, and DrIntr (6) 504). **Compare late Assyrian ebir nari SchrKB iv. 304, l. 7 from below; KAT 3. 188, 437.
2. (Opposite) side, side: הַלָּז מֵע׳ 1 Samuel 14:1 on yonder side seems transition to this meaning; מִזֶּה מֵהָע׳ twice, 1 Samuel 14:4 = on one side, on the other side, so אֶחָד לְע׳ twice 1 Samuel 14:40; even מִשְּׁנֵי עִבְרֵיהֶם Exodus 32:15 (E) on their two sides (i.e. of tablets); הָאֵפוֺד בָּ֑יְתָה אֶלעֿ׳ Exodus 28:26 (P) toward the inner side of theephod; in 1 Kings 7:20, 30 ע׳ apparently = at the side of or opposite, but the architectural details are obscure; מִכָּלעֲֿבָרָיו מִסָּבִיב 1 Kings 5:4 on all sides of him, round about, מִכָּלעֲֿבָרָיו Jeremiah 49:32 (read עֶבְרֵיהֶם Vrss Gie) from all sides of them (all directions, = מִכָּלסְֿבִיבָ֑יִךְ Jeremiah 49:5); יֵלֵ֑כוּ פָּנָיו אֶלעֵֿבֶר to the side of their faces (i.e. in front, straight forward) they (always) went Ezekiel 1:9, 12; Ezekiel 10:22, compare פָּנֶיהָ עַל־ע׳ Exodus 25:37 to give light upon the space in front of it; אִישׁ לְעֶבְרוֺ תָּעוּ Isaiah 47:15 they wander away each in his own direction (regardless of thee). — On 1 Chronicles 26:30 see above.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H5675.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

50:10; 50:11

Exodus

25:37; 28:26; 32:15; 32:15

Numbers

21:13; 22:1; 24:24; 32:19; 32:19; 32:19; 32:32; 34:15; 35:14

Deuteronomy

1:1; 1:5; 3:8; 3:20; 3:25; 4:41; 4:46; 4:47; 4:49; 4:49; 11:30; 30:13; 30:13

Joshua

1:14; 1:15; 1:15; 2:10; 5:1; 5:1; 7:7; 9:1; 9:10; 12:1; 12:1; 12:2; 12:3; 12:4; 12:5; 12:6; 12:7; 13:8; 13:27; 13:32; 13:32; 14:3; 17:5; 18:7; 20:8; 22:4; 22:7; 22:11; 24:2; 24:3; 24:4; 24:8; 24:14; 24:15

Judges

5:17; 7:25; 10:8; 11:18

1 Samuel

14:1; 14:4; 14:4; 14:40; 14:40; 26:13; 31:7; 31:7

2 Samuel

10:16

1 Kings

4:12; 5:4; 5:4; 5:4; 7:20; 7:30; 14:5

1 Chronicles

6:63; 12:37; 19:16; 26:30; 26:30

2 Chronicles

20:2

Ezra

8:36

Nehemiah

2:7; 2:9; 3:7

Job

1:19

Isaiah

7:20; 7:20; 18:1; 47:15; 47:15

Jeremiah

25:22; 48:28; 48:28; 49:5; 49:32; 49:32

Ezekiel

1:9; 1:12; 10:22

Zephaniah

3:10

H5676

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Strong's Number H5676 matches the Hebrew עֵבֶר (ʿēḇer),
which occurs 90 times in 83 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and they bewailed him with a great and very sore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:11 - And the inhabitants of the land of Chanaan saw the mourning at the floor of Atad, and said, This is a great mourning to the Egyptians; therefore he called its name, The mourning of Egypt, which is beyond Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:37 - And thou shalt make its seven lamps: and thou shalt set on it the lamps, and they shall shine from one front.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:15 - And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tables of testimony were in his hands, tables of stone written on both their sides: they were written within and without.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:19 - (LXX 36:26) And they made two golden rings, and put them on the two projections on the top of the oracle, and on the top of the hinder part of the ephod within.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:13 - And they departed thence and encamped on the other side of Arnon in the wilderness, the country which extends from the coasts of the [fn]Amorites; for Arnon is the borders of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:1 - And the children of Israel departed, and encamped on the west of Moab by Jordan toward Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19 - And we will not any longer inherit with them from the other side of Jordan and onwards, because we have our full inheritance on the side beyond Jordan eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and ye shall give us our inheritance beyond Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - Two tribes and half a tribe have received their inheritance beyond Jordan by Jericho from the south eastwards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - Ye shall assign three cities on the other side of Jordan, and ye shall assign three cities in the land of Chanaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side Jordan in the desert towards the west near the Red Sea, between Pharan Tophol, and Lobon, and Aulon, and the gold works.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:5 - beyond Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:8 - And we took at that time the land out of the hands of the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, extending from the brook of Arnon even unto Aermon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:20 - until the Lord your God give your brethren rest, as also he has given to you, and they also shall inherit the land, which the Lord our God gives them on the other side of Jordan; then ye shall return, each one to his inheritance which I have given you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:25 - I will therefore go over and see this good land that is beyond Jordan, this good mountain and Antilibanus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:41 - Then Moses separated three cities beyond Jordan on the east,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46 - on [fn]the other side of Jordan, in the valley near the house of Phogor, in the land of Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel smote when they came out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:47

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:47 - And they inherited his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:49 - All [fn]Araba beyond Jordan eastward under Asedoth [fn]hewn in the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30 - Lo! are not these beyond Jordan, behind, westward in the land of Chanaan, which lies westward near Golgol, by the high oak?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:13 - Neither is it beyond the sea, saying, Who will go over for us to the other side of the sea, and take it for us, and make it audible to us, and we will do it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:14 - Let your wives and your children and your cattle dwell in the land, which he has given you; and ye shall go over [fn]well armed before your brethren, every one of you who is strong; and ye shall fight on their side;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:15 - until the Lord your God shall have given your brethren rest, as also to you, and they also shall have inherited the land, which the Lord your God gives them; then ye shall depart each one to his inheritance, which Moses gave you beyond Jordan eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - For we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of the land of Egypt, and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 - And it came to pass when the kings of the Amorites who were beyond Jordan heard, and the kings of Phœnicia by the sea, that the Lord God had dried up the river Jordan from before the children of Israel when they passed over, that their hearts failed, and [fn]they were terror-stricken, and there was no sense in them [fn]because of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:7 - And Joshua said, I pray, Lord, wherefore has thy servant brought this people over Jordan to deliver them to the Amorite to destroy us? [fn]would we had remained and settled ourselves beyond Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:1 - And when the kings of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan, who were in the mountain country, and in the plain, and in all the coast of the great sea, and those who were near Antilibanus, and the Chettites, and the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Amorites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites, heard of it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:10 - and all that he did to the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, to Seon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Basan, who dwelt in Astaroth and in Edrain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:1 - And these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel slew, and inherited their land beyond Jordan from the east, from the valley of Arnon to the mount of Aermon, and all the land of Araba on the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7 - And these are the kings of the Amorites, whom Joshua and the children of Israel slew beyond Jordan by the sea of Balagad in the plain of Libanus, and as far as the mountain of Chelcha, as men go up to Seir: and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel to inherit according to their portion;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:8 - From Jordan to the great sea westward thou shalt give it them: the great sea shall be the boundary. But to the two tribes and to the half tribe of Manasse, to Ruben and to Gad Moses gave an inheritance beyond Jordan: Moses the servant of the Lord gave it to [fn]them eastward,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:27 - and Enadom, and Othargai, and Bænthanabra, and Soccotha, and Saphan, and the rest of the kingdom of Seon king of Esebon: and Jordan shall be the boundary as far as part of the sea of Chenereth beyond Jordan eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:32 - These are they whom Moses caused to inherit beyond Jordan in Araboth Moab, beyond Jordan by Jericho eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:3 - But to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:5 - And their lot fell to them from Anassa, and to the plain of Labec of the land of Galaad, which is beyond Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:7 - For the sons of Levi have no part among you; for the priesthood of the Lord is his portion; and Gad, and Ruben, and the half tribe of Manasse, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:8 - And beyond Jordan he [fn]appointed Bosor in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Ruben, and Aremoth in Galaad out of the tribe of Gad, and Gaulon in the country of Basan out of the tribe of Manasse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - And now the Lord our God has given our brethren rest, as he told them: now then return and depart to your homes, and to the land of your possession, which Moses gave you on the other side Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:7 - And to one half the tribe of Manasse Moses gave a portion in the land of Basan, and to the other half Joshua gave a portion with his brethren on the other side of Jordan westward: and when Joshua sent them away to their homes, then he blessed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:11 - And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse have built an altar at the borders of the land of Chanaan at Galaad of Jordan, on the opposite side to the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:2 - And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers at first sojourned beyond the river, even Thara, the father of Abraam and the father of Nachor; and they served other gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:3 - And I took your father Abraam from the other side of the river, and I guided him [fn]through all the land, and I multiplied his seed;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:8 - And he brought us into the land of the Amorites that dwelt beyond Jordan, and the Lord delivered them into our hands; and ye inherited their land, and utterly destroyed them from before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:14 - And now fear the Lord, and serve him in righteousness and justice; and remove the strange gods, which our fathers served beyond the river, and in Egypt; and serve the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - But if it seem not good to you to serve the Lord, choose to yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods of your fathers that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, among whom ye dwell upon their land: but I and my house will serve the Lord, for he is holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17 - Galaad is on the other side of Jordan where he pitched his tents; and why does Dan remain in ships? Aser sat down on the sea-coasts, and he will tabernacle at his [fn]ports.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - And they took the princes of Madiam, even Oreb and Zeb; and they slew Oreb in Sur Oreb, and they slew Zeb in Jakephzeph; and they pursued Madiam, and brought the [fn]heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon from beyond Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:8 - And they afflicted and bruised the children of Israel at that time eighteen years, all the children of Israel beyond Jordan in the land of the Amorite in Galaad.

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