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# חוֹרָי

Biblical Hebrew

**white stuff** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

white stuff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5d5_5b9_5e8_5b8_5d9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חוֹרָ֑י: n.m. white stuff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5d5_5b9_5e8_5b8_5d9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. white stuff, cf. i. חוּר; וְאֹרְגִים חוֹרָ֑י Is 19:9 and (those) weaving white stuff.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (21 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: white cloth (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 19:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.9/#tree)

וּבֹ֛שׁוּ עֹבְדֵ֥י פִשְׁתִּ֖ים שְׂרִיק֑וֹת וְאֹרְגִ֖ים חוֹרָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.be.ashamed \[those.who\].work of.flax(es) combed and \[those.who\].weave white.cloth

*JPS 1917:* Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5d5_5b9_5e8_5b8_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5d5_5b9_5e8_5b8_5d9/): 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).