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Hebrew verb · H2114

זוּר

zurzoor

be a stranger; be loathsome

77 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: zûwr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2114is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 16 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 40
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2114

to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery

The King James renders it: (come from) another (man, place), fanner, go away, (e-) strange(-r, thing, woman).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

zur is rendered "be a stranger; be loathsome". It stands 77 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.

  • Fourteen of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "be a stranger".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 29:33They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.
  • The Greek text spells it forty different ways.

The first use

They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.

Exodus 29:33וְזָ֥ר

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in sixteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 23 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: be a stranger, and be loathsome.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
be a strangerStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereExodus 29:33They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration…
be loathsomeStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • strangers21
  • strange18
  • a stranger10
  • and the stranger4
  • a strange3
  • they have become estranged3
  • and a stranger2
  • stranger2
  • to strangers2
  • and strangers1
  • by strange1
  • estranged1

and 9 more, 77 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

זוּרzurto crushUses3
זוּרֶהzurehcrushedUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 77, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

40 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • זָ֑ר9
  • זָרִ֖ים5
  • זָרִ֔ים5
  • וְהַזָּ֥ר4
  • זָ֖ר4
  • זָרִים֙4
  • זָ֣ר3
  • זָרָ֑ה3
  • זָרִ֑ים3
  • זָרִֽים׃3
  • זָֽר׃2
  • זָרָ֖ה2

and 28 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · masculine plural25HAampa
  • adjective · masculine singular20HAamsa
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular7HVqrfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular4HC/Td/Aamsa
  • preposition + adjective · masculine plural3HR/Aampa
  • adjective · feminine plural2HAafpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular2HC/Aamsa
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVNp3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVqp3cp
  • adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HAampc/Sp2fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural1HC/Aampa
  • preposition + adjective · feminine singular1HR/Aafsa

Exodus

three uses
  • They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.

    Exodus 29:33

    • וְזָ֥רvezarconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a stranger
  • On this altar you must not offer unauthorized incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor are you to pour a drink offering on it.

    Exodus 30:9

    • זָרָ֖הzarahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: strange
  • Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”

    Exodus 30:33

    • זָ֑רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a stranger

Leviticus

four uses
  • Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command.

    Leviticus 10:1

    • זָרָ֔הzarahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: strange
  • No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.

    Leviticus 22:10

    • זָ֖רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: stranger
  • If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.

    Leviticus 22:12

    • זָ֑רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: strange
  • But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.

    Leviticus 22:13

    • זָ֖רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: stranger

Numbers

eight uses
  • Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.

    Numbers 1:51

    • וְהַזָּ֥רvehazarconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and the stranger
  • Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.

    Numbers 3:4

    • זָרָ֜הzarahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: strange
  • So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any outsider who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death.”

    Numbers 3:10

    • וְהַזָּ֥רvehazarconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and the stranger
  • Moses, Aaron, and Aaron’s sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, before the Tent of Meeting. They were to perform the duties of the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites; but any outsider who approached the sanctuary was to be put to death.

    Numbers 3:38

    • וְהַזָּ֥רvehazarconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and the stranger
  • just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his followers.

    Numbers 16:40

    • זָ֗רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: strange
  • They are to join you and attend to the duties of the Tent of Meeting, doing all the work at the Tent; but no outsider may come near you.

    Numbers 18:4

    • וְזָ֖רvezarconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a stranger
  • But only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”

    Numbers 18:7

    • וְהַזָּ֥רvehazarconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and the stranger
  • but Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD.

    Numbers 26:61

    • זָרָ֖הzarahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: strange

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

    Deuteronomy 25:5

    • זָ֑רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: strange
  • They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

    Deuteronomy 32:16

    • בְּזָרִ֑יםbezarimpreposition + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: by strange

1 Kings

one use
  • On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.

    1 Kings 3:18

    • זָ֤רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a stranger

2 Kings

one use
  • I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

    2 Kings 19:24

    • זָרִ֑יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strange

Job

five uses
  • to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.

    Job 15:19

    • זָ֣רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a stranger
  • He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

    Job 19:13

    • זָ֥רוּzaruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have become estranged
  • My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

    Job 19:15

    • לְזָ֣רlezarpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to a stranger
  • My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

    Job 19:17

    • זָ֣רָהzarahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is loathsome
  • I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

    Job 19:27

    • זָ֑רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a stranger

Psalms

seven uses
  • If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

    Psalms 44:20

    • זָֽר׃zaradjective · masculine singulartagged: strange
  • For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life— men with no regard for God. Selah

    Psalms 54:3

    • זָרִ֨ים׀zarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

    Psalms 58:3

    • זֹ֣רוּzoruverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they turn aside
  • I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,

    Psalms 69:8

    • מ֭וּזָרmuzorverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: estranged
  • Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

    Psalms 78:30

    • זָר֥וּzaruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had become estranged
  • There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.

    Psalms 81:9

    • זָ֑רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: strange
  • May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

    Psalms 109:11

    • זָרִ֣יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers

Proverbs

fourteen uses
  • It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

    Proverbs 2:16

    • זָרָ֑הzarahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: strange
  • Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

    Proverbs 5:3

    • זָרָ֑הzarahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a strange
  • lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

    Proverbs 5:10

    • זָרִ֣יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

    Proverbs 5:17

    • לְזָרִ֣יםlezarimpreposition + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: to strangers
  • Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

    Proverbs 5:20

    • בְזָרָ֑הvezarahpreposition + adjective · feminine singulartagged: with a strange
  • My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,

    Proverbs 6:1

    • לַזָּ֣רlazarpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: for the stranger
  • that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

    Proverbs 7:5

    • זָרָ֑הzarahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: strange
  • He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.

    Proverbs 11:15

    • זָ֑רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a stranger
  • The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.

    Proverbs 14:10

    • זָֽר׃zaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a stranger
  • Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

    Proverbs 20:16

    • זָ֑רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a stranger
  • The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

    Proverbs 22:14

    • זָר֑וֹתzarotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: strange
  • Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

    Proverbs 23:33

    • זָר֑וֹתzarotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: strange
  • Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—a stranger, and not your own lips.

    Proverbs 27:2

    • זָ֣רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a stranger
  • Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

    Proverbs 27:13

    • זָ֑רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a stranger

Isaiah

ten uses
  • Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

    Isaiah 1:4

    • נָזֹ֥רוּnazoruverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have become estranged
  • Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

    Isaiah 1:7

    • זָרִים֙zarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
    • זָרִֽים׃zarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—

    Isaiah 17:10

    • זָ֖רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a stranger
  • Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

    Isaiah 25:2

    • זָרִים֙zarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.

    Isaiah 25:5

    • זָרִ֖יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

    Isaiah 28:21

    • זָ֣רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: strange
  • But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

    Isaiah 29:5

    • זָרָ֑יִךְzarayikhadjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: strangers your
  • I alone decreed and saved and proclaimed—I, and not some foreign god among you. So you are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.

    Isaiah 43:12

    • זָ֑רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a strange
  • Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

    Isaiah 61:5

    • זָרִ֔יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers

Jeremiah

seven uses
  • You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’

    Jeremiah 2:25

    • זָרִ֖יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strange
  • Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 3:13

    • לַזָּרִ֗יםlazarimpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: to the strangers
  • And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”

    Jeremiah 5:19

    • זָרִ֔יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?

    Jeremiah 18:14

    • זָרִ֥יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strange
  • On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.

    Jeremiah 30:8

    • זָרִֽים׃zarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.

    Jeremiah 51:2

    • זָרִים֙zarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • “We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”

    Jeremiah 51:51

    • זָרִ֔יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers

Lamentations

one use
  • Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

    Lamentations 5:2

    • לְזָרִ֔יםlezarimpreposition + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: to strangers

Ezekiel

eight uses
  • And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.

    Ezekiel 7:21

    • הַזָּרִים֙hazarimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the strangers
  • I will bring you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and I will execute judgments against you.

    Ezekiel 11:9

    • זָרִ֑יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’

    Ezekiel 14:5

    • נָזֹ֙רוּ֙nazoruverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have become estranged
  • You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!

    Ezekiel 16:32

    • זָרִֽים׃zarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.

    Ezekiel 28:7

    • זָרִ֔יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”

    Ezekiel 28:10

    • זָרִ֑יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.

    Ezekiel 30:12

    • זָרִ֔יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

    Ezekiel 31:12

    • זָרִ֛יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers

Hosea

four uses
  • They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.

    Hosea 5:7

    • זָרִ֖יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strange
  • Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.

    Hosea 7:9

    • זָרִים֙zarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

    Hosea 8:7

    • זָרִ֖יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
  • Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

    Hosea 8:12

    • זָ֖רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a strange

Joel

one use
  • Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.

    Joel 3:17

    • וְזָרִ֥יםvezarimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and strangers

Obadiah

one use
  • On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

    Obadiah 1:11

    • זָרִ֖יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers

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