Quick Definition
to blind
Strong's Definition
to blind
Derivation: a primitive root (rather denominatively from H5785 (עוֹר) through the idea of a film over the eyes);
KJV Usage: blind, put out. See also H5895 (עַיִר).
TWOT Reference: 1586
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עָוַר (a.var) — to blind. (Piel) to blind, make blind, put out the eyes of
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · עִיר · עֵר
Awake | verb qal, verb hif | ≈ קיץ | ≠ ישׁן
to wake up = process by which someone wakes up from his sleep
Awake | verb hif, verb nif
to awaken = causative action by which someone wakes up someone else from his sleep
Engage | verb qal, verb nif, verb hit, verb hif | ≈ נשׂא · קום · קיץ
to come into action = action by which someone ends a period of inactivity and comes into action, ◄ as if he had been sleeping for a certain time
JDG 5:12 · JDG 5:12 · JDG 5:12 · JDG 5:12 · JOB 8:6 · JOB 14:12 · JOB 17:8 · JOB 31:29 · PSA 7:7 · PSA 35:23 · PSA 44:24 · PSA 57:9 · PSA 57:9 · PSA 59:5 · PSA 108:3 · SNG 4:16 · ISA 51:9 · ISA 51:9 · ISA 51:9 · ISA 51:17 · ISA 51:17 · ISA 52:1 · ISA 52:1 · ISA 64:6 · JER 6:22 · JER 25:32 · JER 50:41 · JOL 4:12 · HAB 2:19 · ZEC 2:17 · ZEC 13:7
Engage | verb pi, verb hif
to rouse, to stir up = causative action by which someone causes someone else's inactivity to end so that he comes into action, ◄ as if he had been sleeping for a certain time
DEU 32:11 · 1CH 5:26 · 2CH 21:16 · 2CH 36:22 · EZR 1:1 · EZR 1:5 · JOB 3:8 · JOB 41:2 · SNG 8:5 · ISA 13:17 · ISA 14:9 · ISA 41:2 · ISA 41:25 · ISA 45:13 · ISA 50:4 · ISA 50:4 · JER 50:9 · JER 51:1 · JER 51:11 · EZK 23:22 · DAN 11:2 · JOL 4:7 · JOL 4:9 · HAG 1:14 · ZEC 4:1 · ZEC 9:13
Happen | verb pi, verb hif
to rouse, to stir up, to raise, to stoke = causative action by which someone causes an event to start taking place, ◄ as if it had been dormant or inactive for a certain time
PSA 78:38 · PSA 80:3 · PRO 10:12 · SNG 2:7 · SNG 2:7 · SNG 3:5 · SNG 3:5 · SNG 8:4 · SNG 8:4 · ISA 15:5 · ISA 42:13 · DAN 11:25 · HOS 7:4
verb · עִוֵּר · עִוָּרֹון · עַוֶּרֶת
Unable | verb pi
Collocation: עִוֵּר עֵנַיִם
to put out (someone's) eyes = literally: to blind (one's) eyes; hence: = to cause someone to be unable to see by destroying or putting out their eyes
verb · מָעֹור
Uncover | verb nif
Collocation: עור עֶרְיָה
to uncover literally: to uncover bare; hence: = causative action by which someone removes the covering from an object
1 MAL 2:12 MT HOTTP-B "awake, conscious" | RSV NJB NRSV "witness" = עֵד | LXX ἕως = עַד | REB "nomads"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[עָוַר] vb. Pi. make blind, blind base