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title: חֻר — crevice · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֻר (2352), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: crevice. BDB 1906: id. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֻר

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«חֻר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **crevice** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 2352 · **BDB:** חֻר

### Glosses

\[the\].hole (1); holes (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

crevice [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2352/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

id. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2352/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] id.—pl. חוּרִים Is 42:22 as hiding-places of men; s. cstr. חֻר Is 11:8 hole of asp (פָּ֑תֶן).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (21 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (14 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֻר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2352/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 11:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.8/)

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וְשִֽׁעֲשַׁ֥ע יוֹנֵ֖ק עַל־חֻ֣ר פָּ֑תֶן וְעַל֙ מְאוּרַ֣ת צִפְעוֹנִ֔י גָּמ֖וּל יָד֥וֹ הָדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.play a.sucking.child over \[the\].hole of.a.cobra and over \[the\].nest of.a.viper a.weaned.\[child\] hand his he.will.put.out

*JPS 1917:* And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the basilisk's den.

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[Isaiah 42:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.22/)

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וְהוּא֮ עַם־בָּז֣וּז וְשָׁסוּי֒ הָפֵ֤חַ בַּֽחוּרִים֙ כֻּלָּ֔ם וּבְבָתֵּ֥י כְלָאִ֖ים הָחְבָּ֑אוּ הָי֤וּ לָבַז֙ וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּ֔יל מְשִׁסָּ֖ה וְאֵין־אֹמֵ֥ר הָשַֽׁב׃

*Word for word:* and it \[is\].a.people despoiled and plundered they.are.trapped in (the) holes of.them all and in houses of.imprisonment(s) they.are.hidden they.have.become (into) spoil and there.\[is\].not a.deliverer plunder and there.\[is\].not \[one.who\].says bring.\[it\].back

*JPS 1917:* But this is a people robbed and spoiled, they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith: 'Restore.'

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