בּוּר
bûwr · H952 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to examine
Action by which humans carefully examine a certain object or event
ExamplesEcclesiastes 9:1 For I have taken all this to my heart, even to examine it all, that righteous people, wise people, and their deeds are in the hand of God. People do not know whether it will be love or hatred; anything awaits them.
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
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זֶהthis 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- נָגַד nâgad · H5046 · to tell, to inform, to report
- Common Hebrew verb for declaring or making known; both terms express the communication of information, though נָגַד is far more frequent and general while בּוּר is rare
- בָּאַר bâʼar · H874 · to make clear
- Hebrew verb meaning to make clear or explain; shares with בּוּר the sense of clarifying or declaring something explicitly, though etymologically distinct
In the other Testament 2 words
- διασαφέω diasaphéō · G1285 · to make clear, to make evident, to explain
- Greek verb with similar declarative sense of making something clear or known; both terms convey the act of explaining or declaring something with clarity
- ἐξηγέομαι exēgéomai · G1834 · to inform, to relate, to tell fully
- Greek verb meaning to declare, explain, or narrate; corresponds to the declarative function of בּוּר (bûwr, H952) in making something known through verbal explanation
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- The verb means to make something clear or to declare it plainly for examination, as Qoheleth resolves 'to examine' and make clear the fate of the righteous and wise in Ecclesiastes 9:1, connecting it to this domain's sense of perceiving or bringing something into clear view.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H952. bur בּוּר verb Qal Infinitive construct לָבוּר Ecc 9:1 (with accusative); probably…
בּוּר verb Qal Infinitive construct לָבוּר Ecc 9:1 (with accusative); probably (si vera lectio) make clear, clear up, explain (VB; so sometimes, in Late Hebrew, ברר q. v.) but read perhaps ᵑ6 ᵐ5 רָאָה וְלִבִּי Bi; or לָתוּר Gr, compare Ecc 1:13; Ecc 2:13; Ecc 7:25.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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