Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
blind
Usage: 1) blind 1a) blind (physically) 1b) blind (fig.)
`ivver - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Strong's H5787 עִוֵּר (`ivver) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `ivver (iv-vare') adj. 1. blind (literally or figuratively) [intensive from H5786] It has 23 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include blind. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`ivver (iv-vare') adj. 1. blind (literally or figuratively) [intensive from H5786] KJV: blind (men, people). Root(s): H5786
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blind
Usage: 1) blind 1a) blind (physically) 1b) blind (fig.)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `ivver, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
23 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
First 23 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5787.
And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant?
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5787, grouped by book.
Strong's H5787 is a Hebrew entry for H5787 עִוֵּר (`ivver). `ivver (iv-vare') adj. 1. blind (literally or figuratively) [intensive from H5786]
This page currently indexes 23 linked usages for Strong's H5787 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5787 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as blind. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.