שׁוֹר
shôwr · shore
a bullock (as a traveller)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7788 (שׁוּר);
a bullock (as a traveller)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bull(-ock), cow, ox, wall (by mistake for H7791 (שׁוּר)).
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- 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 consume, to destroy › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
To consume, to destroy that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שׁוֹר 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
79 occurrences · 79 OT · 0 NT · 49 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- ox9 · 18%
- the ox5 · 10%
- an ox4 · 8%
- his ox3 · 6%
- of the ox3 · 6%
- oxen3 · 6%
- bullock2 · 4%
- whether it be ox2 · 4%
- of an ox2 · 4%
- then the ox1 · 2%
- with thine oxen1 · 2%
- if an ox1 · 2%
- nor his ox1 · 2%
- but if the ox1 · 2%
- whether it be for ox1 · 2%
- for an ox1 · 2%
- for ox1 · 2%
- that the ox1 · 2%
- it, and an ox1 · 2%
- and the ox1 · 2%
- if the ox1 · 2%
- or an ox1 · 2%
- a wall1 · 2%
- that thine ox1 · 2%
- and i have oxen1 · 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.