Word

זוּר

zûwr · H2115 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

to squeeze

To press an object firmly on all sides, typically with the fingers, in order to extract liquids from it

Examples
Judges 6:38 And it was so. When he got up early the next morning and wrung out the fleece, he wrung the dew from the fleece, a bowl full of water.
to crush

To press an object firmly on all sides, typically with the fingers, in order to break it

Examples
Job 39:15 And she forgets that a foot may crush them, Or that a wild animal may trample them.
Isaiah 59:5 They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; The one who eats of their eggs dies, And from what is crushed, a snake breaks out.

How it’s used In 3 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

רֶגֶלfoot, leg 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

גָּזַּהfleece 1
הָher 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שָׁכַחto forget 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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Impact002001001024: This entry carries no generic impact sense of its own that is independently distinct from its core pressing/thrusting-together sense; the domain is bundle-shared. The genuine sense is covered under the blow bullet below.
Blow002002001002: זוּר (in this distinct homograph sense) denotes pressing, wringing, or thrusting together, as at Judges 6:38 — "he wrung out the fleece, he wrung the dew from the fleece" — and Isaiah 59:5 — "from what is crushed, a snake breaks out."

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

זוּרzûwr · H2115מָזוֹר mâzôwr · H4205 · sore, ulcer, boil · 3×זַרְזִיר zarzîyr · H2223 · rooster · 1×זוּרֶה zûwreh · H2116 · to squeeze, to crush · 0×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2115. zur III. [זוּר] verb press down and out (Aramaic זִיר press together, Syriac ,…

H2115. zur
III. [זוּר] verb press down and out (Aramaic זִיר press together, Syriac , compress; compare Arabic twist the lip of a beast) —
Qal Perfect3plural זֹ֫רוּ Isa 1:6 (passive; > √זרר, Arabic draw forcibly together Ol§ 233 c, 245 l Köi. 333); Imperfect3masculine singular וַיָּ֫זַר Jdg 6:38, Jdg 6:3feminine singular suffix תְּזוּרֶהָ Job 39:15; Participle pass feminine זוּרֶה ( = זוּרָה Ges§ 80, 2, d) Isa 59:5; — press (twist or wring) out a fleece Jdg 6:38; not pressed out, of sore (figurative of continued disaster) Isa 1:6; press under foot an egg, Job 39:15 (|| דּוּשׁ), Isa 59:5 (passive)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Impact0 occurrences Blow0 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0