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# תַּמְרוּרִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8564

**sign-posts** — 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

sign-posts [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8564/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּמְרוּר²: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8564/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. pl. תַּמְרוּרִים Je 31:21, doubtful word; sense, and ‖ צִיֻּנִים, require meaning sign-posts (= תאמ׳, cf. Arabic تُؤْمُورٌ sign-posts, √ امر. v. امَارٌ sign, أَمَرَةٌ stones (heaped up) as waymark; Ethiopic አመረ: I ii shew, point out, give sign or signal);—Gie rejects strange form, reading תִּמֹרִים palm-trees, as posts.—i. ת׳ v. מרר.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 31:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.21/#tree)

הַצִּ֧יבִי לָ֣ךְ צִיֻּנִ֗ים שִׂ֤מִי לָךְ֙ תַּמְרוּרִ֔ים שִׁ֣תִי לִבֵּ֔ךְ לַֽמְסִלָּ֖ה דֶּ֣רֶךְ הָלָ֑כְתְּ שׁ֚וּבִי בְּתוּלַ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל שֻׁ֖בִי אֶל־עָרַ֥יִךְ אֵֽלֶּה׃

*Word for word:* set.up for yourself road.markers place for yourself guideposts set heart your to the highway \[the\].way \[which\].you.went return O.virgin of.Israel return to cities your these

*JPS 1917:* Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the high-way, even the way by which thou wentest; Return, O virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8564.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8564/): 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).