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# שׁוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7791

**wall** — used 3 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

wall [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7791/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוּר⁴: wall [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7791/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] wall (Aramaic שׁוּרָא, ܫܽܘܪܳܐ );—Gn 49:22 (poem in J), 2 S 22:30 = ψ 18:30; pl. sf. שׁוּרֹתָם Jb 24:11 their walls De Di De, cf. Bu; but v. שׁוּרָה infra; שָׁרוֹתֶיהָ Je 5:10 = its walls, according to Vrss AV RV Gf Gie, read then שֻׁ׳, but v. id.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (23 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (19 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a wall (3).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.30/#tree)

כִּ֥י בְכָ֖ה אָר֣וּץ גְּד֑וּד בֵּאלֹהַ֖י אֲדַלֶּג־שֽׁוּר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) by you I.run a.marauding.band by God my I.leap.over a.wall

*JPS 1917:* For by Thee I run upon a troop; by my God do I scale a wall.

[Genesis 49:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.22/#tree)

בֵּ֤ן פֹּרָת֙ יוֹסֵ֔ף בֵּ֥ן פֹּרָ֖ת עֲלֵי־עָ֑יִן בָּנ֕וֹת צָעֲדָ֖ה עֲלֵי־שֽׁוּר׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.son of.a.fruit-bearer Joseph a.son of.a.fruit-bearer at a.spring daughters she.will.climb over a.wall

*JPS 1917:* Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run over the wall.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7791.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7791/): 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).