Hebrew verb · H8446
תּוּר
turtoor
to spy
24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tûwr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8446is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 18spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8446
to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially fortrade or reconnoitring
The King James renders it: chap(-man), sent to descry, be excellent, merchant(-man), search (out), seek, (e-) spy (out).
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
tur is rendered "to spy". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 10:33So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.
- The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.
The first use
So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.
Numbers 10:33לָת֥וּר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's twenty-four uses are in Numbers.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to spy out6
- the merchants2
- to seek out2
- and they caused to spy out1
- and they spied out1
- and to discover1
- and to examine1
- from spying out1
- he makes a search1
- I had selected1
- I searched1
- it explores1
and 5 more, 24 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תּוּשִׁיָּה | tushiah | wisdom | Uses12 |
| תּוּב | tub | to return: return | Uses8 |
| תּוּגָה | tugah | grief | Uses4 |
All 24, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
18 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
- לָת֣וּר4
- לָת֥וּר3
- תַּ֣רְתִּי2
- הַתָּרִ֖ים1
- הַתָּרִ֔ים1
- הַתָּרִ֛ים1
- וַיָּתִ֥ירוּ1
- וְיָתֻ֙רוּ֙1
- וַיָּתֻ֣רוּ1
- וְלָתוּר֙1
- וְלָת֔וּר1
- יְת֣וּר1
and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)9HR/Vqcc
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural3HTd/Vqrmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HC/R/Vqcc
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqp1cs
- Hc/Vhw3mp1Hc/Vhw3mp
- HC/Vqu3mp1HC/Vqu3mp
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhj3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqi2mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqp2mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
Numbers
fourteen uses
So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.
- לָת֥וּרlaturpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to seek out
“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”
- וְיָתֻ֙רוּ֙veyaturuHC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may spy out
These were the names of the men Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses gave to Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.
- לָת֣וּרlaturpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to spy out
When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.
- לָת֖וּרlaturpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to spy out
So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
- וַיָּתֻ֣רוּvaiyaturuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they spied out
After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,
- מִתּ֣וּרmiturpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from spying out
So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.
- תָּר֣וּtaruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had spied out
- לָת֣וּרlaturpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to spy out
Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
- הַתָּרִ֖יםhatarimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those spied out
and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.
- לָת֣וּרlaturpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to spy out
In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
- תַּרְתֶּ֣םtartemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you spied out
So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—
- לָת֣וּרlaturpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to spy out
Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
- לָת֥וּרlaturpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to spy out
These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.
- תָתֻ֜רוּtaturuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will go about
Deuteronomy
one use
who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.
- לָת֥וּרlaturpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to seek out
Judges
one use
They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),
- וַיָּתִ֥ירוּvaiyatiruHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they caused to spy out
1 Kings
one use
not including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.
- הַתָּרִ֔יםhatarimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the merchants
2 Chronicles
one use
not including the revenue from the merchants and traders. And all the Arabian kings and governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.
- הַתָּרִ֛יםhatarimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the merchants
Job
one use
He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
- יְת֣וּרyeturverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it explores
Proverbs
one use
A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.
- יָתֵ֣רyaterverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he makes a search
Ecclesiastes
three uses
And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
- וְלָתוּר֙velaturconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to discover
I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
- תַּ֣רְתִּיtartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I searched
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
- וְלָת֔וּרvelaturconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to examine
Ezekiel
one use
On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
- תַּ֣רְתִּיtartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I had selected
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.
