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# זוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2115

**press down and out** — used 3 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

press down and out [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2115/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זוּר³: vb. press down and out [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2115/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. press down and out (Aramaic זִיר press together, Syriac ܙܘܰܪ, ܙܳܪ compress; cf. Arabic زَيَّرَ twist the lip of a beast)— Pf. 3 pl. זֹ֫רוּ Is 1:6 (pass.; \> √ זרר, Arabic زَرَّ draw forcibly together Ol§ 233c, 2451 Köi 333); Impf. 3 ms. וַיָּ֫וַר Ju 6:38, 3 fs. sf. תְּזוּרֶהָ Jb 39:15; Pt. pass. f. זוּרֶה (= זוּרָה Ges§ 80 i) Is 59:5;—press (twist or wring) out a fleece Ju 6:38; not pressed out, of sore (fig. of continued disaster) Is 1:6; press under foot an egg, Jb 39:15 (‖ דּוּשׁ), Is 59:5 (pass.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[egg\] (1); he squeezed out (1); it (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.15/#tree)

וַ֭תִּשְׁכַּח כִּי־רֶ֣גֶל תְּזוּרֶ֑הָ וְחַיַּ֖ת הַשָּׂדֶ֣ה תְּדוּשֶֽׁהָ׃

*Word for word:* and it.has.forgotten (dm).that a.foot it will.crush.it and.(the) animal of the.field it will.trample.it

*JPS 1917:* And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them.

[Isaiah 59:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.5/#tree)

בֵּיצֵ֤י צִפְעוֹנִי֙ בִּקֵּ֔עוּ וְקוּרֵ֥י עַכָּבִ֖ישׁ יֶאֱרֹ֑גוּ הָאֹכֵ֤ל מִבֵּֽיצֵיהֶם֙ יָמ֔וּת וְהַזּוּרֶ֖ה תִּבָּקַ֥ע אֶפְעֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* eggs of.a.viper they.have.hatched and webs of.a.spider they.weave the.\[one who\].eats any of their.eggs he.will.die and the.pressed \[egg\] it.is.hatched a.snake

*JPS 1917:* They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2115.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2115/): 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).