Passage. Used in the plural, Jer_22:20, probably, to denote the mountain region of Abarimm on the east side of Jordan. It also denotes a river ford, or mountain gorge or pass.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Passage
in the A.V., is the representative in. certain places of several forms from the root עָבִר, abar, to cross: 1, the simple verb (Num_20:21, give passage, elsewhere usually pass); 2, עֶבֶר, eber, a crossing (Jos_22:11; in the plur. Jer_22:20, Abarim [q.v.]; elsewhere beyond, etc.) SEE EBER; מִעֲבָר, maabar, fem. מִעִבָרָה, a transit, either by water (Jdg_12:5-6; Jer_51:32), a ford (as rendered often), or by land, a pass through mountains (Isa_10:29), as at Michmash (q.v.) (1Sa_12:23; 1Sa_24:4).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
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