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# סוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5495

**Sur** — 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

Sur [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5495/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סוּר³: n.pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5495/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. of a temple-gate;—שַׁעַר ס׳ 2 K 11:6 (\> ‖ 2 Ch 23:5 שַׁעַר הַיְסוֹד, v. יְסוֹד), but del. ver. as gloss WeBleek’s Einl. 4:258 KmpKau Benz.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Kings 11:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.11.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.11.6/#tree)

וְהַשְּׁלִשִׁית֙ בְּשַׁ֣עַר ס֔וּר וְהַשְּׁלִשִׁ֥ית בַּשַּׁ֖עַר אַחַ֣ר הָרָצִ֑ים וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֛ם אֶת־מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת הַבַּ֖יִת מַסָּֽח׃

*Word for word:* and the.third \[part\] at the.gate of.Sur and the.third \[part\] at the gate behind the runners and you.will.keep (et) the.watch of the.house by.turns

*JPS 1917:* now another third part was at the gate Sur, and another third part at the gate behind the guard — shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5495.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5495/): 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).