Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H7793
שׁוּר
Shurshoor
Shur
6 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 H7793is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7793
Shur, a region of the Desert
The King James renders it: Shur.
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 "Shur". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 16:7Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
Genesis 16:7שֽׁוּר׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Shur5
- Shur towards1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שׁוּר | shur | to see | Uses15 |
| שׁוּט | shut | to rove | Uses13 |
| שׁוּשַׁן | shushan | lily | Uses13 |
| שׁוּל | shul | hem | Uses11 |
| שׁוּעָל | shual | fox | Uses7 |
| שׁוּחָה | shuchah | pit | Uses5 |
| שׁוּחִי | Shuchi | Shuhite | Uses5 |
| שׁוּף | shuph | to bruise | Uses4 |
| שׁוּק | shuq | street | Uses4 |
| שׁוּר | shur | wall | Uses4 |
| שׁוּק | shuq | to overflow | Uses3 |
| שׁוּר | shur | to travel | Uses3 |
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 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- שׁ֑וּר2
- שׁ֗וּר1
- שׁ֔וּר1
- שֽׁוּר׃1
- שׁ֖וּרָה1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)5HNpl
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1HNpl/Sd
Genesis
three uses
Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
- שֽׁוּר׃shurproper noun (a name)tagged: Shur
Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,
- שׁ֑וּרshurproper noun (a name)tagged: Shur
Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
- שׁ֗וּרshurproper noun (a name)tagged: Shur
Exodus
one use
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.
- שׁ֑וּרshurproper noun (a name)tagged: Shur
1 Samuel
two uses
Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
- שׁ֔וּרshurproper noun (a name)tagged: Shur
Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)
- שׁ֖וּרָהshurahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Shur towards
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.