Word

אוּר

ʼÛwr · H218 · Hebrew · proper noun · 5 occurrences

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Place

Urfirst named in Genesis 11:284 verses

Person

Urfirst named in 1 Chronicles 11:351 verse

Meanings

Ur

A town on the river Euphrates in southern Mesopotamia, the place where Abram and his family used to live before moving to Haran

Examples
Genesis 11:28 Haran died during the lifetime of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Genesis 11:31 Now Terah took his son Abram, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran and settled there.
Genesis 15:7 And He said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it.”
Ur

A man who was the father of Eliphal, a warrior in the time of King David

Examples
1 Chronicles 11:35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

4 occurrences in 1 groups

כַּשְׂדִּיChaldeans 4

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom 6
בin/on/with 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 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 5 entries

Fire001002005006: אוּר as the place name Ur shares its root with the ordinary word for fire (Isaiah 31:9, tagged under the common-noun form אוּר (ʼûwr, H217) rather than under this place name's own occurrence), though here it names Abram's city of origin.
Spatial Referents003002005: Ur functions as a spatial reference point, the place the LORD brought Abram "out from" toward the land of Canaan (Genesis 15:7).
Stone001002005016: The city's name carries the same root association with fire and glowing coals as the common noun (Isaiah 31:9, tagged under אוּר (ʼûwr, H217) rather than under this place name's own occurrence), rather than an independently attested sense of stone for this place name.
Names of Locations003001010: אוּר most directly names Ur of the Chaldeans, the city of Terah's family and Abram's birthplace (Genesis 11:28).
Names of People003001007: The name's form is shared with personal-name usage elsewhere drawn from the same root, Uri the father of Bezalel (Exodus 31:2, tagged under a related personal-name form rather than under this place name's own occurrence).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H218. Uwr II. אוּר proper name, masculine (flame) father of one of David's heroes 1Ch…

H218. Uwr
II. אוּר proper name, masculine (flame) father of one of David's heroes 1Ch 11:35 (III. אוּר proper name, of a location see below)
III. אור proper name, of a location Ur (Babylonian Uru; seat of moon-god worship; hence Eupolemos in EusebPraep.Ev.ix. 17 says Καμαρίνῃ ἥν τινας λέγειν πόλιν Οὐρίην), ancient city in Southern Babylonia; OT always כַּשְׂדִּים אור i.e. Ur of the Kasdim (Chaldeans) see כַּשְׂדִּים below כשׂד; home of Terah, Abram's father, & A.'s point of departure for Mesopotamia & Canaan Gen 11:28; Gen 15:7 (both J), & hence Neh 9:7; also Gen 11:31 (P); — modern Muqayyar, south of Euphrates, approximately 150 miles southeast of Babylon; see KG94f DlPa 226 f COT on Gen 11:28.
אֲוֵרוֺת see אֻרְיָה below I. ארה.
אֲוַרְנָה see אֲרַוְנָה

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

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