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title: זוּר — press down and out · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זוּר (2115), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: press down and out. BDB 1906: vb. press down and out. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זוּר

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«זוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **press down and out** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 2115 · **BDB:** זוּר³

### Glosses

\[egg\] (1); he.squeezed.out (1); it (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

press down and out [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2115/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. press down and out [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2115/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. press down and out (Aramaic זִיר press together, Syriac ܙܘܰܪ, ܙܳܪ compress; cf. Arabic زَيَّرَ twist the lip of a beast)— Pf. 3 pl. זֹ֫רוּ Is 1:6 (pass.; \> √ זרר, Arabic زَرَّ draw forcibly together Ol§ 233c, 2451 Köi 333); Impf. 3 ms. וַיָּ֫וַר Ju 6:38, 3 fs. sf. תְּזוּרֶהָ Jb 39:15; Pt. pass. f. זוּרֶה (= זוּרָה Ges§ 80 i) Is 59:5;—press (twist or wring) out a fleece Ju 6:38; not pressed out, of sore (fig. of continued disaster) Is 1:6; press under foot an egg, Jb 39:15 (‖ דּוּשׁ), Is 59:5 (pass.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2115/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 39:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.15/)

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וַ֭תִּשְׁכַּח כִּי־רֶ֣גֶל תְּזוּרֶ֑הָ וְחַיַּ֖ת הַשָּׂדֶ֣ה תְּדוּשֶֽׁהָ׃

*Word for word:* and it.has.forgotten (dm).that a.foot it will.crush.it and.(the) animal of the.field it will.trample.it

*JPS 1917:* And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them.

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[Isaiah 59:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.5/)

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בֵּיצֵ֤י צִפְעוֹנִי֙ בִּקֵּ֔עוּ וְקוּרֵ֥י עַכָּבִ֖ישׁ יֶאֱרֹ֑גוּ הָאֹכֵ֤ל מִבֵּֽיצֵיהֶם֙ יָמ֔וּת וְהַזּוּרֶ֖ה תִּבָּקַ֥ע אֶפְעֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* eggs of.a.viper they.have.hatched and webs of.a.spider they.weave the.\[one who\].eats any of their.eggs he.will.die and the.pressed \[egg\] it.is.hatched a.snake

*JPS 1917:* They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

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