תּוּר
tûwr · toor
to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially fortrade or reconnoitring
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially fortrade or reconnoitring
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: chap(-man), sent to descry, be excellent, merchant(-man), search (out), seek, (e-) spy (out).
Letters
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- 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)
the mark, the covenant sign › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
The mark, the covenant sign that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of תּוּר 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
24 occurrences · 24 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to search3 · 13%
- to search out1 · 4%
- that they may search1 · 4%
- to spy out1 · 4%
- them to spy out1 · 4%
- and searched1 · 4%
- from searching1 · 4%
- which they had searched1 · 4%
- which were of them that searched1 · 4%
- through to search1 · 4%
- in which ye searched1 · 4%
- them; and that ye seek1 · 4%
- you, to search you out1 · 4%
- sent to descry1 · 4%
- beside that he had of the merchantmen1 · 4%
- beside that which chapmen1 · 4%
- is more excellent1 · 4%
- and search out1 · 4%
- i sought1 · 4%
- and to search1 · 4%
- that i had espied1 · 4%
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.