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Lexicon :: Strong's H7789 - šûr

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שׁוּר
Transliteration
šûr
Pronunciation
shoor
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root [identical with שׁוּר (H7788) through the idea of going round for inspection]
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TWOT Reference: 2354

Strong’s Definitions

שׁוּר shûwr, shoor; a primitive root (identical with through the idea of going round for inspection); to spy out, i.e. (generally) survey, (for evil) lurk for, (for good) care for:—behold, lay wait, look, observe, perceive, regard, see.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's H7789 in the following manner: behold (5x), see (4x), look (2x), observe (2x), lay wait (1x), regard (1x), perceive (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's H7789 in the following manner: behold (5x), see (4x), look (2x), observe (2x), lay wait (1x), regard (1x), perceive (1x).

  1. to see, behold, observe, regard

    1. (Qal)

      1. to behold, observe

      2. to regard

      3. to watch, watch (stealthily), lie in wait

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שׁוּר shûwr, shoor; a primitive root (identical with through the idea of going round for inspection); to spy out, i.e. (generally) survey, (for evil) lurk for, (for good) care for:—behold, lay wait, look, observe, perceive, regard, see.
STRONGS H7789: Abbreviations
† II. [שׁוּר] verb behold, regard (especially Job); —
Qal Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יָשׁוּר Jeremiah 5:26, suffix יְשׁוּרֶנּוּ Job 34:29, etc.; Imperative masculine singular שׁוּר Job 35:5; —
1. behold, with accusative of person Numbers 23:9; Numbers 24:17 (poems in J E, || רָאָה), לֹא תְּשׁוּרֵנִי, subject eye, Job 24:15, and (= I shall not exist) Job 7:8, compare Job 20:9 (subject מְקוֺמוֺ), Job 17:15; God object Job 34:29; Job 35:14; look, gaze, absolute, מִן local Songs 4:8.
2. regard with watchful care (subject י׳) Hosea 14:9; so, = notice, Job 35:13; regard, observe, accusative of thing, God's word Job 33:14 (Hi De Da and others), so, (reading 2nd person masculine singular), Siegf Bu; Du יְשִׁיבֶנּוּ he (God) retracts it not.
3. watch stealthily, lie in wait, בְּנָמֵר עַלדֶּֿרֶךְ אָשׁוּר Hosea 13:7 (subject י׳; Meinh Marti אֶשְׁקֹד; Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate We Now and others אַשּׁוּר), Jeremiah 5:26 (subject wicked). — Job 33:27 see שׁיר.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

23:9; 24:17

Job

7:8; 17:15; 20:9; 24:15; 33:14; 33:27; 34:29; 34:29; 35:5; 35:13; 35:14

Song of Songs

4:8

Jeremiah

5:26; 5:26

Hosea

13:7; 14:9

H7789

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7789 matches the Hebrew שׁוּר (šûr),
which occurs 16 times in 16 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 - For from the top of rocks I see it, And from heights I behold it; Lo a people! alone it doth tabernacle, And among nations doth not reckon itself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 - I see it, but not now; I behold it, but not near; A star hath proceeded from Jacob, And a sceptre hath risen from Israel, And hath smitten corners of Moab, And hath destroyed all sons of Sheth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:8 - The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me -- and I am not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:15 - And where is now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:9 - The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:15 - And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, 'No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:14 - For once doth God speak, and twice, (He doth not behold it.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:27 - He looketh on men, and saith, 'I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 34:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:29 - And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, It is the same.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:5 - Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:13 - Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:14 - Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment is before Him, and stay for Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:8 - Come from Lebanon, come thou in. Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Shenir and Hermon, From the habitations of lions, From the mountains of leopards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:26 - For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:7 - And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:8 - O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I -- I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: 'I am as a green fir-tree,' From Me is thy fruit found.
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