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# אוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H217

**flame** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

flame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/217/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אוּר: n.m. flame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/217/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. flame. לְכוּ בְאוּר אֶשְׁכֶם walk in the flame of your fire Is 50:11, & so fire itself, whose light & flame were seen 44:16; 47:14—exile Is. + 31:9 & Ez 5:2 (Co אשׁ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a fire (2); fire (2); east (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 24:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.15/#tree)

עַל־כֵּ֥ן בָּאֻרִ֖ים כַּבְּד֣וּ יְהוָ֑ה בְּאִיֵּ֣י הַיָּ֔ם שֵׁ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* therefore in the east glorify Yahweh in the.islands of the.sea the.name of.Yahweh the.God of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* 'Therefore glorify ye the LORD in the regions of light, even the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.'

[Isaiah 44:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.16/#tree)

חֶצְיוֹ֙ שָׂרַ֣ף בְּמוֹ־אֵ֔שׁ עַל־חֶצְיוֹ֙ בָּשָׂ֣ר יֹאכֵ֔ל יִצְלֶ֥ה צָלִ֖י וְיִשְׂבָּ֑ע אַף־יָחֹם֙ וְיֹאמַ֣ר הֶאָ֔ח חַמּוֹתִ֖י רָאִ֥יתִי אֽוּר׃

*Word for word:* of.it half he.burns in a.fire over of.it half meat he.eats he.roasts roasted.meat and he.is.satisfied also he.is.warm and he.says aha! I.am.warm I.see a.fire

*JPS 1917:* He burneth the half thereof in the fire; with the half thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself, and saith: 'Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire';

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/217.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/217/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).