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# שׁוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7789

**behold** — 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

behold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7789/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוּר²: vb. behold, regard [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7789/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. behold, regard (especially Jb);— Impf. 3 ms. יָשׁוּר Je 5:26, sf. יְשׁוּרֶנּוּ Jb 34:29, etc.; Imv. ms. שׁוּר Jb 35:5;— behold, c. acc. pers. Nu 23:9; 24:17 (poems in JE, ‖ רָאָה), לֹא תְּשׁוּרֵנִי, subj. eye, Jb 24:15, and (= I shall not exist) 7:8, cf. 20:9 (subj. מְקוֹמוֹ), 17:15; God object 34:29; 35:14; look, gaze, abs., מִן loc. Ct 4:8. regard with watchful care (subj. י׳) Ho 14:9; so, = notice, Jb 35:13; regard, observe, acc. rei, God’s word Jb 33:14 (Hi De Da al.), so, (reading 2 ms.), Siegf Bu; Du יְשִׁיבֶנָּה he (God) retracts it not. watch stealthily, lie in wait, כְּנָמֵר עַל־דֶּרֶךְ אָשׁוּר Ho 13:7 (subj. י׳; Meinh Marti אֶשְׁקֹד; 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 We Now al. אַשּׁוּר), Je 5:26 (subj. wicked).—Jb 33:27 v. שׁיר.

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 (22 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (18 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I (3); it (3); he watches (2).

## In the verses

[Job 35:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.35.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.35.5/#tree)

הַבֵּ֣ט שָׁמַ֣יִם וּרְאֵ֑ה וְשׁ֥וּר שְׁ֝חָקִ֗ים גָּבְה֥וּ מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* look.at \[the\].heavens and see and observe \[the\].clouds they.are.high more than.you

*JPS 1917:* Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.

[Job 35:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.35.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.35.13/#tree)

אַךְ־שָׁ֭וְא לֹא־יִשְׁמַ֥ע ׀ אֵ֑ל וְ֝שַׁדַּ֗י לֹ֣א יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* surely emptiness not he.hears God and.\[the\] Almighty not he observes.it

*JPS 1917:* Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7789.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7789/): 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).