Word

חוּר

chûwr · H2352 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. hole, den, dungeon

    Empty, open place in a solid body

    Examples

    Isaiah 11:8 The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra, And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

    Isaiah 42:22 But this is a people plundered and pillaged; All of them are trapped in caves, Or are hidden away in prisons; They have become plunder, with no one to save them, And spoils with no one to say, “Give them back!”

How it’s used In 2 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

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

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
Cloth001002005003
This code is inherited from the domain listing shared with this word's homograph meaning "white" (חוּר (chûwr, H2353), referring to fine white linen); the "hole" sense attested here, the cobra's den a child plays beside (Isaiah 11:8), does not itself denote cloth.
Names of People003001007
This code is likewise inherited from the shared listing with the personal name Hur (חוּר (Chûwr, H2354)); the "hole" sense attested here does not itself name a person.
Word family 4 words

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

Also from the root חוּר

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2352. chuwr חֹר noble, חֻר חֹר, hole, see below II. חרר; הַגִּדְגָּד חֹר see below II.…
H2352. chuwr
חֹר noble, חֻר חֹר, hole, see below II. חרר; הַגִּדְגָּד חֹר see below II. חור.
חרא, or חרה (√ of following; meaning unknown).
חוּר חֻר, noun [masculine] id. — collective חוּר Isa 42:22 as hiding-places of men; construct חֻר Isa 11:8 hole of asp (מָּ֑חֶן).

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

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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