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title: סוּר — turn aside · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סוּר (5494), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: turn aside. BDB 1906: adj.verb. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סוּר

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«סוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **turn aside** — 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:** 5494 · **BDB:** סוּר²

### Glosses

my.disloyal (1); the.degenerate.\[ones\] (1); thrust.away (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

turn aside [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5494/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.verb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5494/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.verb. properly Pt. of סור q.v.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5494/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 2:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.21/)

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וְאָֽנֹכִי֙ נְטַעְתִּ֣יךְ שֹׂרֵ֔ק כֻּלֹּ֖ה זֶ֣רַע אֱמֶ֑ת וְאֵיךְ֙ נֶהְפַּ֣כְתְּ לִ֔י סוּרֵ֖י הַגֶּ֥פֶן נָכְרִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and I I had.planted.you a.choice.vine of.it all \[was\].seed of.reliability and how! you.have.changed.yourself to me the.degenerate.\[ones\] of the.vine alien

*JPS 1917:* Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto Me?

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[Jeremiah 17:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.13/)

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מִקְוֵ֤ה יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ יְהוָ֔ה כָּל־עֹזְבֶ֖יךָ יֵבֹ֑שׁוּ וְסוּרַי֙ בָּאָ֣רֶץ יִכָּתֵ֔בוּ כִּ֥י עָזְב֛וּ מְק֥וֹר מַֽיִם־חַיִּ֖ים אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* O.hope of.Israel O.Yahweh all \[those who\].forsake.you they.will.be.ashamed and my.disloyal \[ones\] in the land they.will.be.written.down (dm) they.have.forsaken \[the\].spring of.water living (et) Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Thou hope of Israel, the LORD! All that forsake Thee shall be ashamed; they that depart from Thee shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

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