Strong's #4569: ma`abar (pronounced mah-ab-awr')

or feminine mapabarah {mah-ab-aw-raw'}; from 5674; a crossing-place (of a river, a ford; of a mountain, a pass); abstractly, a transit, i.e. (figuratively) overwhelming:--ford, place where...pass, passage.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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ma‛ăbâr / ma‛ăbârâh

1) ford, pass, passing

1a) ford

1b) pass

1c) passing, sweep

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H5674

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Genesis 32:22: "and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok."
Joshua 2:7: "them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after"
Judges 3:28: "after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not"
Judges 12:5: "And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when"
Judges 12:6: "Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time"
1 Samuel 13:23: "of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash."
1 Samuel 14:4: "And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines'"
Isaiah 10:29: "They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul"
Isaiah 16:2: "so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon."
Isaiah 30:32: "And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon"
Jeremiah 51:32: " And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened."