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# קוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6979

**bore** — 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

bore [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6979/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קוּר: vb. bore, dig [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6979/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bore, dig (Arabic قَارَ (و) cut a round hole in, scoop out);— Pf. 1 s. קַרְתִּי 2 K 19:24 I have dug (sc. a well) = Is 37:25 (Meinh conj. כָּרִתִי).— , , v. I, II. קרר.

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 (19 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: I have dug (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 37:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.25/#tree)

אֲנִ֥י קַ֖רְתִּי וְשָׁתִ֣יתִי מָ֑יִם וְאַחְרִב֙ בְּכַף־פְּעָמַ֔י כֹּ֖ל יְאֹרֵ֥י מָצֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* I I.have.dug and I.have.drunk water and I.have.dried.up with the.sole my.feet my all the.canals of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

[2 Kings 19:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.24/#tree)

אֲנִ֣י קַ֔רְתִּי וְשָׁתִ֖יתִי מַ֣יִם זָרִ֑ים וְאַחְרִב֙ בְּכַף־פְּעָמַ֔י כֹּ֖ל יְאֹרֵ֥י מָצֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* I I.have.dug and I.have.drunk water strange and I.have.dried.up with the.sole my.feet my all the.canals of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6979.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6979/): 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).