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Hebrew verb · H7789

שׁוּר

shurshoor

to see

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

Concordance spelling: shûwr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7789is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 4 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 13
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7789

to spy out, i.e. (generally) survey, (for evil) lurk for, (for good) care for

The King James renders it: behold, lay wait, look, observe, perceive, regard, see.

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

shur is rendered "to see". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.

  • Ten of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 23:9For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.
  • The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.

The first use

For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.

Numbers 23:9אֲשׁוּרֶ֑נּוּ

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

Where the word stands

Ten of the word's fifteen uses are in Job.

The other 35 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • he watches2
  • I observe him2
  • it will observe me2
  • and I will watch over it1
  • and observe1
  • anyone perceives it1
  • he observes it1
  • I will watch1
  • it will see him1
  • will he observe him1
  • will he observe it1
  • you observe him1

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.

שׁוּטshutto roveUses13
שׁוּשַׁןshushanlilyUses13
שׁוּלshulhemUses11
שׁוּעָלshualfoxUses7
שׁוּחָהshuchahpitUses5
שׁוּחִיShuchiShuhiteUses5
שׁוּףshuphto bruiseUses4
שׁוּקshuqstreetUses4
שׁוּרshurwallUses4
שׁוּקshuqto overflowUses3
שׁוּרshurto travelUses3
שׁוּרshurwallUses3

and 10 more on 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.

All 15, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

13 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

  • יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃3
  • אָשֽׁוּר׃1
  • אֲשׁוּרֶ֑נּוּ1
  • אֲשׁוּרֶ֖נּוּ1
  • וַאֲשׁוּרֶ֗נּוּ1
  • וְשׁ֥וּר1
  • יָשׁוּר֙1
  • יְשׁוּרֶ֑נּוּ1
  • יָשֹׁ֤ר׀1
  • תְשׁוּרֶ֑נּוּ1
  • תְּשׁוּרֶ֥נּוּ1
  • תְ֭שׁוּרֵנִי1

and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3HVqi3ms/Sp3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi1cs/Sp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVqi3fs/Sp1bs
  • HC/Vqu1cs/Sp3ms1HC/Vqu1cs/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Vqv2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqi1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi2ms/Sp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3fs/Sp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms/Sp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqj3ms

Numbers

two uses
  • For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.

    Numbers 23:9

    • אֲשׁוּרֶ֑נּוּʾashurenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I observe him
  • I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and strike down all the sons of Sheth.

    Numbers 24:17

    • אֲשׁוּרֶ֖נּוּʾashurenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I observe him

Job

ten uses
  • The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.

    Job 7:8

    • תְ֭שׁוּרֵנִיteshureniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it will observe me
  • where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

    Job 17:15

    • יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃yeshurenahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: will he observe it
  • The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

    Job 20:9

    • תְּשׁוּרֶ֥נּוּteshurenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will see him
  • The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

    Job 24:15

    • תְשׁוּרֵ֣נִיteshureniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it will observe me
  • For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

    Job 33:14

    • יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃yeshurenahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: anyone perceives it
  • Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

    Job 33:27

    • יָשֹׁ֤ר׀yashorverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he watches
  • But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,

    Job 34:29

    • יְשׁוּרֶ֑נּוּyeshurenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he observe him
  • Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

    Job 35:5

    • וְשׁ֥וּרveshurconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and observe
  • Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.

    Job 35:13

    • יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃yeshurenahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he observes it
  • How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,

    Job 35:14

    • תְשׁוּרֶ֑נּוּteshurenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you observe him

Jeremiah

one use
  • For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

    Jeremiah 5:26

    • יָשׁוּר֙yashurverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he watches

Hosea

two uses
  • So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

    Hosea 13:7

    • אָשֽׁוּר׃ʾashurverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will watch
  • O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.

    Hosea 14:8

    • וַאֲשׁוּרֶ֗נּוּvaashurenuHC/Vqu1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I will watch over it

The letters

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 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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