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Lexicon :: Strong's H8446 - tûr

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תּוּר
Transliteration
tûr
Pronunciation
toor
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2500

Strong’s Definitions

תּוּר tûwr, toor; a primitive root; to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially for trade or reconnoitring:—chap(-man), sent to descry, be excellent, merchant(-man), search (out), seek, (e-) spy (out).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's H8446 in the following manner: search (11x), search out (3x), spy out (2x), seek (2x), chapmen (with H582) (1x), descry (1x), espied (1x), excellent (1x), merchantmen (with H582) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's H8446 in the following manner: search (11x), search out (3x), spy out (2x), seek (2x), chapmen (with H582) (1x), descry (1x), espied (1x), excellent (1x), merchantmen (with H582) (1x).

  1. to seek, search out, spy out, explore

    1. (Qal)

      1. to seek out, select, find out how to do something

      2. to spy out, explore

        1. explorers, spies (participle)

      3. to go about

        1. merchant, trader (participle)

    2. (Hiphil) to make a search, make a reconnaissance

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תּוּר tûwr, toor; a primitive root; to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially for trade or reconnoitring:—chap(-man), sent to descry, be excellent, merchant(-man), search (out), seek, (e-) spy (out).
STRONGS H8446: Abbreviations
† תּוּר verb seek out, spy out, explore (Late Hebrew id. (rare); perhaps originally turn (to or about), Assyrian târu, turn about, back, taiâru adjective turning back, also merciful, and substantive mercy; Arabic bdb106404 (bdb106405) IV. go about (rare), bdb106406 a go-between) —
Qal Perfect 1st person singular תַּרְתִּי Ezekiel 20:6; Ecclesiastes 2:3; 3rd person plural תָּרוּ Numbers 13:32; 2nd person masculine plural תַּרְתֶּם Numbers 14:24; Imperfect 3rd person masculine plural יָתֻ֫רוּ Numbers 13:2, וַיָּתֻ֫רוּ Numbers 13:21; read also 3rd person masculine singular, יָתוּר Job 39:8 Vulgate Targum Ew Di Bu Du and most (for יְתוּר); 2nd person masculine plural תָּתוּ֫רוּ Numbers 15:39; Infinitive construct תּוּר Numbers 10:33 +; Participle plural תָּרִים Numbers 14:6, on 1 Kings 10:15; 2 Chronicles 9:14 see infra; —
1. seek out, select: לָתוּר לָהֶם מִנוּחָה Numbers 10:33 (J, subject ark of י׳), compare Deuteronomy 1:33 (subject י׳), Ezekiel 20:6 (id., accusative land); followed by infinitive = find out how to do something, בְּלִבִּי לְ ת׳ Ecclesiastes 2:3.
2. spy out, explore, accusative of land Numbers 13:2, 16, 17, 21, 23, 32 (twice in verse); Numbers 14:7, 34, 36, 38, accusative of mountains Job 39:8 (see above), compare Participle as subject explores, spies Numbers 14:6 (all P); explore mentally, וּבַקֵּשׁ חָכְמָה לָדַעַת וְלָת׳ Ecclesiastes 7:25, compare Ecclesiastes 9:1 Gr (ת׳ for בוּר which see), בְּחָכְמָה עַלֿ לָת׳ Ecclesiastes 1:13 (KueOnd. 2, iii. 196).
3. go about, figurative אַהֲרִי לְבַבְכֶם Numbers 15:39 (P); Participle אַנְשֵׁי הַתָּרִים 1 Kings 10:15; 2 Chronicles 9:14, usually merchants (|| סֹחֲרִים רִכְּ לִים); Kit, after Syriac Version 2 Chronicles, proposes הֶעָרִים for הַתָּרִים.
Hiph. Imperfect 3rd person masculine plural וַיָּתִ֫ירוּ בְּבֵיתאֵֿל Judges 1:23 they made a reconnoisance at Bethel (Vrss disagree, Gie וַיַּחֲנוּ, compare GFM); 3rd person masculine singular יָתֵר מֵרֵעֵהוּ צַדִּיק Proverbs 12:26 the righteous searches out (RV is a guide to) his friend, Targum AV is more excellent than (reading יָתָר), Hi Ew De and others spies out his pasture (מִרְעֵהוּ, in spiritual sense), all dubious; Toy conjectures יָסֻר מֵרָעָה.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

10:33; 10:33; 13:2; 13:2; 13:16; 13:17; 13:21; 13:21; 13:23; 13:32; 13:32; 14:6; 14:6; 14:7; 14:24; 14:34; 14:36; 14:38; 15:39; 15:39

Deuteronomy

1:33

Judges

1:23

1 Kings

10:15; 10:15

2 Chronicles

9:14; 9:14

Job

39:8; 39:8

Proverbs

12:26

Ecclesiastes

1:13; 2:3; 2:3; 7:25; 9:1

Ezekiel

20:6; 20:6

H8446

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Strong's Number H8446 matches the Hebrew תּוּר (tûr),
which occurs 23 times in 22 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33 - And they departed from the mount of the Lord a three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them a three days' journey to provide rest for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:2 - Send for thee men, and let them spy the land of the Chananites, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession; one man for a tribe, thou shalt send them away according to their families, every one of them a prince.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:16 - These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses called Ause the son of Naue, Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:17 - And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Chanaan, and said to them, Go up by this wilderness; and ye shall go up to the mountain,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:21 - And they went up and surveyed the land from the wilderness of Sin to Rhoob, as men go in to Æmath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:25 - And they returned from thence, having surveyed the land, after forty days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:32 - And they brought a horror of that land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:6 - But Joshua the son of Naue, and Chaleb the son of Jephonne, of the number of them that spied out the land, rent their garments,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:7 - and spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we surveyed is indeed extremely good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34 - According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years, and ye shall know my fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:36 - And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who came and murmured against it to the assembly so as to bring out evil words concerning the land,—

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:38 - And Joshua the son of Naue and Chaleb the son of Jephonne still lived of those men that went to spy out the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39 - And it shall be on your fringes, and ye shall look on them, and ye shall remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them: and ye shall not turn back after your imaginations, and after the sight of your eyes in the things after which ye go a whoring;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:33 - who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night, shewing you the way by which ye go, and a cloud by day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:23 - And they encamped and surveyed Bæthel: and the name of the city before was Luza.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:15 - Besides the tributes of them that were subjects, both merchants and all the kings of the country beyond the river, and of the princes of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:14 - besides what the men who were regularly appointed and the merchants brought, and all the kings of Arabia and princes of the land: all brought gold and silver to king Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:26 - A just arbitrator shall be his own friend; but mischief shall pursue sinners; and the way of ungodly men shall lead them astray.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:13 - And I applied my heart to seek out and examine by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven, for God has given to the sons of men an evil trouble to be troubled therewith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:3 - And I examined whether my heart would excite my flesh as with wine, (though my heart guided me in wisdom,) and I desired to lay hold of mirth, until I should see of what kind is the good to the sons of men, which they should do under the sun all the days of their life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:25 - I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account of things, and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6 - in that day I helped them with my hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into the land which I prepared for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is abundant beyond every land.
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