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# טוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2905

**row** — used 26 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

row [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2905/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טוּר²: n.m. row [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2905/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 28:17 row—abs. ט׳ Ex 28:17 + 9 times; cstr. id. 28:17 + 3 times; pl. טוּרִים 28:17 + 7 times; טֻרִים 1 K 7:20; cstr. טוּרֵי Ex 39:10 + 2 times;— row, course of building-stones, in temple and in Solomon’s house 1 K 6:36; 7:12; forming enclosures in corner of court Ez 46:23a; of beams 6:36; 7:12, v. also 7:4 (Th Klo, v. שֶׁקֶף, שְׁקֻפִים); of pillars 7:2, 3. row of jewels, on high priest’s breast-piece Ex 28:17(×3), 18, 19, 20; 39:10(×3), 11, 12, 13 (all P); of pomegranates on capitals of pillars in temple 1 K 7:20, 42 2 Ch 4:13, so also prob. 1 K 7:18, v. Th Klo, after 𝔊; of knops round the molten sea 7:24, cf. 2 Ch 4:3 (oxen הַבָּקָר, erron. for הַפְּקָעִים 1 K 7:24).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: rows (12); row (9); a row (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.18/#tree)

וְהַטּ֖וּר הַשֵּׁנִ֑י נֹ֥פֶךְ סַפִּ֖יר וְיָהֲלֹֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the row (the) second \[will.be\].a.turquoise a.sapphire and an.emerald

*JPS 1917:* and the second row a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald;

[Exodus 28:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.19/#tree)

וְהַטּ֖וּר הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י לֶ֥שֶׁם שְׁב֖וֹ וְאַחְלָֽמָה׃

*Word for word:* and the row (the) third \[will.be\].a.jacinth an.agate and an.amethyst

*JPS 1917:* and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2905.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2905/): 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).