עוּר
ʻûwr · oor
to wake (literally or figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root (rather identical with through the idea of opening the eyes);
to wake (literally or figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (a-) wake(-n, up), lift up (self), [idiom] master, raise (up), stir up (self).
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- 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 see and know › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
To see and know that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עוּר 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
80 occurrences · 80 OT · 0 NT · 65 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- awake17 · 29%
- stirred up5 · 9%
- that ye stir not up3 · 5%
- nor awake3 · 5%
- stirreth up2 · 3%
- shall stir up2 · 3%
- that dare stir him up2 · 3%
- stir up2 · 3%
- i myself will awake2 · 3%
- he shall stir up2 · 3%
- he wakeneth2 · 3%
- shall be raised up2 · 3%
- behold, i will raise up2 · 3%
- and he lifted up1 · 2%
- he lifted up1 · 2%
- for lifting up1 · 2%
- had raised1 · 2%
- to raise up1 · 2%
- surely now he would awake1 · 2%
- nor be raised out1 · 2%
- me, or lifted up1 · 2%
- and awake1 · 2%
- awake up1 · 2%
- when thou awakest1 · 2%
- and did not stir up1 · 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.