דּוּר
dûwr · H1752 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to pile up, to heap up
Causative action by which someone arranges objects in a heap
ExamplesEzekiel 24:5 “Take the choicest of the flock, And also stack wood under the pot. Make it boil vigorously. Also boil its bones in it.”
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to dwell
State in which someone resides in a certain place
ExamplesPsalm 84:10 For a day in Your courtyards is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than live in the tents of wickedness.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֶצֶםbone 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- תַּחַתunder, below, instead of+ הָher 1
- בin/on/with+ אֹהֶלtent 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- גּוּר gûwr · H1481 · to sojourn, to live as alien, to dwell
- Both share the sense "to dwell"—גּוּר (gûwr, H1481) among several senses including sojourning, דּוּר (dûwr, H1752) exclusively—making them near-synonyms for residing somewhere.
- שָׁכַן shâkan · H7931 · to settle down, to stay, dwell, to cause to dwell
- Both are distinct Hebrew roots meaning to dwell or reside, converging on the same core sense of habitation.
- יָשַׁב yâshab · H3427 · to sit down, to be seated, to make sit
- דּוּר (dûwr, H1752) is a rare Aramaic loanword meaning simply "to dwell," while יָשַׁב (yâshab, H3427) is the common Hebrew verb for dwelling or sitting; both genuinely denote residing or inhabiting a place.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Space002002001017
- This entry carries no independent "Space" sense of its own beyond the ordinary dwelling sense already covered in the Dwell domain below; every tagged occurrence describes a person or thing residing somewhere, never spatial extent as an abstract category on its own.
- Dwell002002001005
- דּוּר denotes dwelling or residing in a place, tagged at Psalm 84:11 (the Hebrew-numbered verse; the matching English content, "I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than live in the tents of wickedness," is rendered one verse earlier in most English translations) and, in its extended sense of piling or heaping close together, at Ezekiel 24:5 — "stack wood under the pot."
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1752. dur דּוּר verb 1. heap up, pile. 2 dwell (originally move in a circle, go about,…
דּוּר verb 1. heap up, pile.
2 dwell (originally move in a circle, go about, surround, compare Arabic ; house, especially as group of buildings about a court; Assyrian dûru, wall, fortress, COTGloss; thence (denominative Fl Late Hebrew WBi. 440) dwell Aramaic דּוּר, (participle & Pa`el), hence in Hebrew compare GiesZAW i. 304 Fll.c. CheOP 479; Ethiopic generation (= דּוֺר: probably loan-word); according to Hpt KAT2Glossary i. Assyrian [daru§, endure], dârû, everlasting (compare BezOrient. Diplom.) = Arabic long time, age) —
Qal in Infinitive באהלירֿשׁע מִדּוּר Psa 84:11 than to dwell in tents of wickedness. Imperative (or Infinitive absolute irregular for דּוֺר, compare || לָקוֺחַ) העצמים דּוּר Eze 24:5 heap up. — In Gen 6:3 some read Imperfect3masculine singular יָדוּר shall dwell, for ידון; see דין.
[דּוּר] verb dwell (see Biblical Hebrew); —
Pe`al Imperfect3feminine singular of beasts תְּדוּר Dan 4:18; Dan 4:3masculine plural birds יְדֻרוּן Dan 4:9 (Qr feminine יְדוּרָן, f. subject, צִמֲּרֵי, follows, compare Dan 4:18 and K§ 98, 2 c, Anm. 3); Participle plural of men, דָּאדִין Kt Dan 2:38; Daniel 3:31; Dan 6:26 (Qr דָּֽיְרִין); as substantive, construct דָּארֵי Kt Dan 4:32 (twice in verse) (Qr דָּֽיְרֵי) as substantive, construct דָּארֵי Kt Dan 4:32 (twice in verse) (Qr דָּֽיְרֵי dwellers.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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