סוּר
çûwr · soor
to turn off (literal or figurative)
Lexicon
Derivation: or שׂוּר; (Hosea 9:12), a primitive root;
to turn off (literal or figurative)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), [idiom] grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, [idiom] be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Letters
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- 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 support and uphold › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
To support and uphold that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of סוּר 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
300 occurrences · 300 OT · 0 NT · 193 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- depart16 · 16%
- he departed8 · 8%
- departed7 · 7%
- remove6 · 6%
- it shall he take away5 · 5%
- were not taken away5 · 5%
- away5 · 5%
- hath taken away4 · 4%
- and take away4 · 4%
- shall depart4 · 4%
- is taken away4 · 4%
- put away3 · 3%
- is departed3 · 3%
- and turned not aside3 · 3%
- removed3 · 3%
- to depart3 · 3%
- were not removed3 · 3%
- and removed3 · 3%
- that he may take away2 · 2%
- to remove2 · 2%
- took off2 · 2%
- off2 · 2%
- and he removed2 · 2%
- and they turned in2 · 2%
- turn in2 · 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.