Definition

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)

Etymology

from H5674 (עָבַר);

Where the KJV renders it

• against
• beyond
• by
• from
• over
• passage
• quarter
• (other
• this) side
• straight

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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