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title: עִוָּרוֹן — blindness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עִוָּרוֹן (5788), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: blindness. BDB 1906: blindness. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עִוָּרוֹן

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«עִוָּרוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **blindness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 5788 · **BDB:** עִוָּרוֹן

### Glosses

blindness (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

blindness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5788/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

blindness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5788/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] blindness;—only in phr. (subj. י׳), smite (הִכָּה) with blindness: fig. of ‘blind incapacity’ (Dr) בְּע׳ Dt 28:28; of smiting horses בַּע׳ Zc 12:4, i.e. with blind staggers, making them helplessly wild.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עִוָּרוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5788/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 28:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.28/)

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יַכְּכָ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה בְּשִׁגָּע֖וֹן וּבְעִוָּר֑וֹן וּבְתִמְה֖וֹן לֵבָֽב׃

*Word for word:* he will.strike.you Yahweh with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of.heart

*JPS 1917:* The LORD will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.

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[Zechariah 12:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.12.4/)

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בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא נְאֻם־יְהוָ֗ה אַכֶּ֤ה כָל־סוּס֙ בַּתִּמָּה֔וֹן וְרֹכְב֖וֹ בַּשִּׁגָּע֑וֹן וְעַל־בֵּ֤ית יְהוּדָה֙ אֶפְקַ֣ח אֶת־עֵינַ֔י וְכֹל֙ ס֣וּס הָֽעַמִּ֔ים אַכֶּ֖ה בַּֽעִוָּרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* on the day (the) that the.utterance of.Yahweh I.will.strike every horse with (the) bewilderment and rider its with (the) madness and over the.house of.Judah I.will.open (et) eyes my and every (the).horse of the.peoples I.will.strike with (the) blindness

*JPS 1917:* In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with bewilderment, and his rider with madness; and I will open Mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.

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