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# חוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2354

**Hur** — used 15 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

Hur [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2354/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חוּר²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2354/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (meaning dub.; cf. Nab. n.pr. חורו Nö in Eutp. 45)— 𝔊 Ωρ, named with Aaron as compan. of Moses Ex 17:10, 12; 24:14 (all E). 𝔊 Ωρ, a Judahite Ex 31:2 = 35:30, cf. 38:22 (all P) 1 Ch 2:19, 20, 50 (on div. of verse v. Be VB); also 4:1, 4 2 Ch 1:5. 𝔊 Ουρ, a king of Midian Nu 31:8 Jos 13:21 (both P). 𝔊L Σουρ (B om.) head of fam. of returned exiles Ne 3:9. בֶּן־חוּר officer of Sol. 1 K 4:8, v. sub בֵּן p. 122.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (21 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Hur (8); of Hur (7).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.20/#tree)

וְחוּר֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־אוּרִ֔י וְאוּרִ֖י הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־בְּצַלְאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and Hur he.fathered (et) Uri and Uri he.fathered (et) Bezalel

*JPS 1917:* And Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Bezalel.

[1 Chronicles 4:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.1/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י יְהוּדָ֑ה פֶּ֧רֶץ חֶצְר֛וֹן וְכַרְמִ֖י וְח֥וּר וְשׁוֹבָֽל׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Judah \[were\].Perez Hezron and Carmi and Hur and Shobal

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2354.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2354/): 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).