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# חֻר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2352

**crevice** — used 2 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

crevice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2352/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֻר: id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2352/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] id.—pl. חוּרִים Is 42:22 as hiding-places of men; s. cstr. חֻר Is 11:8 hole of asp (פָּ֑תֶן).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 0 with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] hole (1); holes (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 11:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.8/#tree)

וְשִֽׁעֲשַׁ֥ע יוֹנֵ֖ק עַל־חֻ֣ר פָּ֑תֶן וְעַל֙ מְאוּרַ֣ת צִפְעוֹנִ֔י גָּמ֖וּל יָד֥וֹ הָדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.play a.sucking.child over \[the\].hole of.a.cobra and over \[the\].nest of.a.viper a.weaned.\[child\] hand his he.will.put.out

*JPS 1917:* And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the basilisk's den.

[Isaiah 42:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.22/#tree)

וְהוּא֮ עַם־בָּז֣וּז וְשָׁסוּי֒ הָפֵ֤חַ בַּֽחוּרִים֙ כֻּלָּ֔ם וּבְבָתֵּ֥י כְלָאִ֖ים הָחְבָּ֑אוּ הָי֤וּ לָבַז֙ וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּ֔יל מְשִׁסָּ֖ה וְאֵין־אֹמֵ֥ר הָשַֽׁב׃

*Word for word:* and it \[is\].a.people despoiled and plundered they.are.trapped in (the) holes of.them all and in houses of.imprisonment(s) they.are.hidden they.have.become (into) spoil and there.\[is\].not a.deliverer plunder and there.\[is\].not \[one.who\].says bring.\[it\].back

*JPS 1917:* But this is a people robbed and spoiled, they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith: 'Restore.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2352.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2352/): 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).