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 39Old Testament books
- 40spellings
- 2meanings
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.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: be a stranger, and be loathsome.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| be a strangerStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereExodus 29:33They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration… |
| be loathsomeStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- זָ֑רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: strange
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
- 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.
- 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.”
- זָרִ֑יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strange
Job
five uses
to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
- זָ֣רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a stranger
He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
- 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.
- לְזָ֣רlezarpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to a stranger
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
- 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!
- 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,
- זָֽר׃zaradjective · masculine singulartagged: strange
For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life— men with no regard for God. Selah
- זָרִ֨ים׀zarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
- 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,
- מ֭וּזָרmuzorverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: estranged
Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
- 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.
- זָ֑רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: strange
May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
- זָרִ֣יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
Proverbs
fourteen uses
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
- זָרָ֑הzarahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: strange
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- זָרָ֑הzarahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: a strange
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
- זָרִ֣יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
- לְזָרִ֣יםlezarimpreposition + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: to strangers
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- 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,
- לַזָּ֣רlazarpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: for the stranger
that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
- 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.
- זָ֑רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a stranger
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.
- 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.
- 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.
- זָר֑וֹתzarotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: strange
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
- זָר֑וֹתzarotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: strange
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—a stranger, and not your own lips.
- זָ֣רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a stranger
Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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—
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- זָ֑רzaradjective · masculine singulartagged: a strange
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
- 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.’
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- זָרִ֔יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
Lamentations
one use
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- זָרִ֖יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
- 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.
- 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.
- זָרִ֖יםzarimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: strangers
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
