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Hebrew · Strong's H6979

קוּר

qurkoor

to trench

1890 spelling: qûwr

Strong's Dictionary · 1890

to trench; by implication, to throw forth; to wall up, whether literal (to build a wall) or figurative (to estop)

Rendered in the KJV as

break down, cast out, destroy, dig.

  • 6
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 4 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 6
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 6 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 6

  • הֵקֵ֣רָה1
  • וְקַרְקַ֖ר1
  • כְּהָקִ֥יר1
  • מְקַרְקַ֥ר1
  • קַ֔רְתִּי1
  • קַ֖רְתִּי1

How it is rendered · 5

  • I have dug2
  • a breaking down of1
  • and it will destroy1
  • as keeps cool1
  • it has kept cool1

The sense the word carries at each spot: how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 5

  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 1st person common singular2
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1
  • verb · causative (hiphil), completed action · 3rd person feminine singular1
  • verb · intensive (piel), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HVqp1cs · 2
  • HC/Ncbsc · 1
  • HR/Vhcc · 1
  • HVhp3fs · 1
  • HVprmsc · 1

All 6, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Isaiah carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Numbers1 occurrence
2 Kings1 occurrence
Isaiah2 occurrences
Jeremiah2 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled קוּר

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0: their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).