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title: דּוּר — heap up · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דּוּר (1752), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: heap up. BDB 1906: vb. heap up, pile dwell. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דּוּר

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«דּוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **heap up** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1752 · **BDB:** דּוּר

### Glosses

pile.up (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

heap up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1752/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. heap up, pile dwell [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1752/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. heap up, pile. dwell (orig. move in a circle, go about, surround, cf. Arabic دَارَ; دَارٌ house, especially as group of buildings about a court; Assyrian dûru, wall, fortress, COTGloss.; thence (denom. Fl NHWBi. 440) dwell Aramaic דּוּר, ܕܳܪ (pt. \& Pa), hence in Heb. cf. Giesebr ZAW i. 304 Fl l.c. CheOP 479; Ethiopic ዳር generation (= דּוֹר: prob. loan-word); according to Hpt KAT2 Gloss.. i. Assyrian \[darû, endure\], dârû, everlasting (cf. Bez Orient Diplom.) = Arabic دَهْرٌ long time, age)— in Inf. מִדּוּר באהלי־רשׁע ψ 84:11 than to dwell in tents of wickedness. Imv. (or Inf. abs. irreg. for דּוֹר, cf. ‖ לָקוֹחַ) דּוּר העצמים Ez 24:5 heap up.—In Gn 6:3 some read Impf. 3 ms. יָדוּר shall dwell, for ידון; v. דין.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דּוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1752/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 24:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.5/)

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מִבְחַ֤ר הַצֹּאן֙ לָק֔וֹחַ וְגַ֛ם דּ֥וּר הָעֲצָמִ֖ים תַּחְתֶּ֑יהָ רַתַּ֣ח רְתָחֶ֔יהָ גַּם־בָּשְׁל֥וּ עֲצָמֶ֖יהָ בְּתוֹכָֽהּ׃ס

*Word for word:* the.choicest of the.flock take and also pile.up the bones under it make.boil boilings its also they.have.cooked bones its in the.midst of.it

*JPS 1917:* Take the choice of the flock, and pile also the bones under it; make it boil well, that the bones thereof may also be seethed in the midst of it.

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