אוּר
ʼûwr · H217 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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fire
Fire; used for burning sacrifices and other objects, setting fire to arrows, and warming oneself; associated with light, warmth, and destruction
ExamplesIsaiah 31:9 “His rock will pass away because of panic, And his officers will be terrified by the flag,” Declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 44:16 Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat, he roasts a roast, and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire.”
Isaiah 47:14 “Behold, they have become like stubble, Fire burns them; They cannot save themselves from the power of the flame; There will be no coal to warm by Nor a fire to sit before!
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eastern country
A reference to the direction where the sun comes up
ExamplesIsaiah 24:15 Therefore glorify the LORD in the east, The name of the LORD, the God of Israel, In the coastlands of the sea.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֵשׁfire 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָאָהto see 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- צִיּוֹןZion 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 5
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- πῦρ pŷr · G4442 · fire, bonfire
- Greek πῦρ (pŷr, G4442) is the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew אוּר (ʼûwr, H217), both denoting literal fire or light with full semantic overlap across physical and metaphorical domains.
Semantic domains 5 entries
- Fire001002005006
- אוּר names fire itself, as the LORD whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem (Isaiah 31:9).
- Spatial Referents003002005
- The word also functions as a directional term in one attested reading, "in the east," glorifying the LORD in the coastlands (Isaiah 24:15).
- Stone001002005016
- This entry carries no independent “Stone” sense of its own; every occurrence of this lexeme is the common noun for fire, as in “whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem” (Isaiah 31:9). The domain is bundle-shared with אוּר (ʼÛwr, H218) and אוּרִים (ʼÛwrîym, H224).
- Names of Locations003001010
- The same form underlies place-name usage, sharing its consonants with the city name Ur (Genesis 11:28, tagged under the place-name form אוּר (ʼÛwr, H218) rather than under this lexeme's own occurrences).
- Names of People003001007
- The word's form also overlaps with personal-name usage drawn from the same root, Uri the father of Bezalel (Exodus 31:2, tagged under a related personal-name form rather than under this lexeme's own occurrences).
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H217. ur I. אוּר noun masculine flame. אֶשְּׁכֶם בְאוּר לְכוּ walk in the flame of your…
I. אוּר noun masculine flame. אֶשְּׁכֶם בְאוּר לְכוּ walk in the flame of your fire Isa 50:11, & so fire itself, whose light & flame were seen Isa 44:16; Isa 47:14 — exile Isaiah + Isa 31:9 & Eze 5:2 (Co אשׁ).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 5 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
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
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