זוּר
zûwr · zoor
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
- to turn aside (especially for lodging)
- hence, to be aforeigner, strange, profane
- specifically, (active participle) to commit adultery
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (come from) another (man, place), fanner, go away, (e-) strange(-r, thing, woman).
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
To cut, to sustain that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זוּר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
77 occurrences · 77 OT · 0 NT · 40 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- strangers6 · 13%
- strange5 · 10%
- of strangers5 · 10%
- and the stranger4 · 8%
- for a stranger3 · 6%
- and strangers3 · 6%
- for strangers2 · 4%
- and a stranger2 · 4%
- thee from the strange2 · 4%
- also be married unto a stranger1 · 2%
- and not another1 · 2%
- there shall no stranger1 · 2%
- any of it upon a stranger1 · 2%
- but there shall no stranger1 · 2%
- me for a stranger1 · 2%
- are verily estranged1 · 2%
- and no stranger1 · 2%
- there was no stranger1 · 2%
- with strange1 · 2%
- unto a stranger1 · 2%
- no stranger1 · 2%
- is strange1 · 2%
- no strange1 · 2%
- to a strange1 · 2%
- them: but a stranger1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.