King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5575
Transliteration: sanverim
Phonetic Spelling: (san-vare')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: sudden blindness
Meaning: sudden blindness
Word 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).