Word

שׁוּר

Shûwr · H7793 · Hebrew · proper noun · 6 occurrences

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Place

Shurfirst named in Genesis 16:76 verses

Meanings

Shur

Location east of Egypt

Examples
Genesis 16:7 Now the angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

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

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 1 groups

פָּנִיםface, presence, before 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

עַדto, as far as, until 1
בֵּיןbetween, among 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

דֶּרֶךְway, road 1
מִדְבָּרwilderness, desert 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.

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.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Constructions001003002: שׁוּר (Shûwr, H7793) is the place name "Shur" (a wilderness region), as in occurrences glossed "Shur"/"of Shur." As a proper name it does not independently attest the "Constructions" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with שׁוּר (shûwr, H7790), שׁוּר (shûwr, H7791), and שׁוּר (shûwr, H7792) in the source data and is not confirmed by this proper name's own occurrences.
Enemies001001003002: שׁוּר (Shûwr, H7793) is the place name "Shur" (a wilderness region), as in occurrences glossed "Shur"/"of Shur." As a proper name it does not independently attest the "Enemies" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with שׁוּר (shûwr, H7790), שׁוּר (shûwr, H7791), and שׁוּר (shûwr, H7792) in the source data and is not confirmed by this proper name's own occurrences.
Names of Locations003001010: Shur names the wilderness on Egypt's border, as in Genesis 16:7's "spring on the way to Shur" and Exodus 15:22's "the wilderness of Shur" — a specific region.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7793. Shur III. שׁוּר proper name, of a location southwest of Palestine, on east border…

H7793. Shur
III. שׁוּר proper name, of a location southwest of Palestine, on east border of Egypt; — Gen 16:7 (J; שׁ ׳דֶּרֶךְ), Gen 20:1 (E), towards Egypt Gen 25:18 (J), 1Sa 15:7, שׁ֫וּרָה 1Sa 27:8; ׳מִדְּבַּרשֿׁ Exo 15:22 (J). — Often supposed to denote properly the 'wall' or line of fortresses, built by Egyptian kings across isthmus of Suez; but dubious: compare DrHast. DB SHUR.

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