דּוּר
dûwr · H1754 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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circle
Exact meaning unsure; possibly: object shaped like a circle
ExamplesIsaiah 29:3 I will camp against you encircling you, And I will set up siegeworks against you, And I will raise up battle towers against you.
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ball
Exact meaning unsure; probably: a round solid object which can be easily rolled, kicked, or thrown
ExamplesIsaiah 22:18 And wrap you up tightly like a ball, To be driven into a vast country; There you will die, And there your splendid chariots will be, You shame of your master’s house!’
How it’s used In 1 role
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After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 2
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Shape002001001052
- דּוּר describes something rolled or wound into a round shape, as Isaiah pictures a man being tightly wrapped up like a ball to be hurled into exile.
- Artifacts001003001001
- The related sense of encircling or surrounding, as when Isaiah describes Jerusalem being encircled with siege towers, ties דּוּר to the constructed works and installations of siege warfare.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1754. dur דּוּר noun [masculine] circle, ball — 1 circle: DuIsa 29:3 thinks noun here…
דּוּר noun [masculine] circle, ball —
1 circle: DuIsa 29:3 thinks noun here also is כַּדּוּר (or כִּדּוֺר) = כִּידוֺר onset of combatants; Marti כְּדָוִד as ᵐ5 Lo Brd and others; עליך כַּדּוּר וְחָנִיתִי Isa 29:3 ( > ᵐ5 Brd כְּדָוִד).
2 ball כַּדּוּר צְנֵפָה יִצְנָפְךָ צָנוֺף Isa 22:18 (so most; but BöNÄ ii. 134 De Or JastrPAOS 1888, xciv ff. regard noun as כַּדּוּר, ball, as Talmud, compare also MV SS under the word; see כדר). [
3 heap, pile Eze 24:5 Thes Ke MV compare מְדוּרָה Eze 24:9; but see above below דּוּר
verb]
כַּדּוּר noun [masculine] ball, according to BöNÄ ii, 134 De Or and others Isa 22:18, as in Talmud; circle, cordon (Assyrian kudûru), according to JastrPAOS, Oct. 1888, xcvi; see also דּוּר b.
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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