| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. i.) To interfere; to come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa. 2. (v. i.) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened (i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking. 3. (v. i.) To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel. 4. (v. i.) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter. 5. (v. t.) To come between. 6. (n.) A coming between; intervention; meeting. | Multi-Version Concordance Intervene (1 Occurrence) Isaiah 59:16 And He saw that there was no man, and was astonished that there was no intercessor; therefore His own arm brought salvation unto Him; and His righteousness, it sustained Him; (See RSV NIV) |