Jastrow: עִוֵּר I

עִוֵּר I m. (b. h.; עור; cmp. חָוַר, חֲוַרְוָור) [white, blank,] blind. Bekh. 44ᵃ (ref. to Lev. XXI, 18) ע׳ בין סומא וכ׳ ‘ivver means both blind of one eye as well as of both; a. e.—B. Mets. V, 11, a. fr. משום ולפני ע׳ וכ׳ it comes under the category of the law (Lev. XIX, 14), ‘place no stumbling block before the blind’ (cause no man to sin).—Pl. עִוְּרִים. Midr. Till. to Ps. CXLVI, 8 ומי הן הע׳ הדורות … כע׳ who are the blind? These latter generations that walk in the Law like blind men; a. e.—[Usually סוּמָא].—Denom.