Lexical Summary sanverim: sudden blindness Original Word: סַנְוֵרTransliteration: sanverim Phonetic Spelling: (san-vare') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: sudden blindness Meaning: sudden blindness Strong's Concordance blindness Of uncertain derivation; (in plural) blindness -- blindness. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5575. sanverim סַנְוֵרִים noun [masculine] plural intensive or abstract (Sta§ 324 b) sudden blindness (etymology dubious; derivation from נוּר highly improbable, whether antiphrase WetzstDe Psalm 4, 886 Köii. 1, 404, or from dazzling, compare 'flimmern' HoffmZAW ii (1882), 68; but also view of HalRŠJ xi. 66 derivatives from √ סנר cover with a skin, i.e. produce film over, lacks demonstration; at present we must be content with assuming quadriliteral √, Thes Sta§ 243); — בַּסּ ׳הִכּוּ Genesis 19:11 (J) they smote the men with sudden blindness, compare 2 Kings 6:18; 2:18 (all cases miraculous, and in Kings temporary). |
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