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# שׁוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7793

**Shur** — used 6 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

Shur [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7793/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוּר⁵: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7793/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. SW. of Palestine, on E. border of Egypt;—Gn 16:7 (J; דֶּרֶךְ שׁ׳), 20:1 (E), towards Egypt 25:18 (J), 1 S 15:7, שׁ֫וּרָה 27:8; מִדְבַּר־שׁ׳ Ex 15:22 (J).—Often supposed to denote properly the ‘wall’ or line of fortresses, built by Egyptian Kings across isthmus of Suez; but dub.: cf. Dr Hast.DB Shur.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (22 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (18 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shur (3); of Shur (2); to (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 15:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.7/#tree)

וַיַּ֥ךְ שָׁא֖וּל אֶת־עֲמָלֵ֑ק מֵֽחֲוִילָה֙ בּוֹאֲךָ֣ שׁ֔וּר אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and he.defeated Saul (et) Amalek from Havilah come you Shur which \[is\].on the.face of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, that is in front of Egypt.

[Genesis 16:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.16.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.16.7/#tree)

וַֽיִּמְצָאָ֞הּ מַלְאַ֧ךְ יְהוָ֛ה עַל־עֵ֥ין הַמַּ֖יִם בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר עַל־הָעַ֖יִן בְּדֶ֥רֶךְ שֽׁוּר׃

*Word for word:* and he found.her the.angel of.Yahweh at the.spring of.(the) water in the wilderness at the spring on the.way of.Shur

*JPS 1917:* And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7793.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7793/): 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).