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title: קוּר — bore · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קוּר (6979), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: bore. BDB 1906: vb. bore, dig. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קוּר

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«קוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bore** — 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:** 6979 · **BDB:** קוּר

### Glosses

I.have.dug (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bore [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6979/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. bore, dig [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6979/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bore, dig (Arabic قَارَ (و) cut a round hole in, scoop out);— Pf. 1 s. קַרְתִּי 2 K 19:24 I have dug (sc. a well) = Is 37:25 (Meinh conj. כָּרִתִי).— , , v. I, II. קרר.

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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 (19 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (14 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6979/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 37:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.25/)

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אֲנִ֥י קַ֖רְתִּי וְשָׁתִ֣יתִי מָ֑יִם וְאַחְרִב֙ בְּכַף־פְּעָמַ֔י כֹּ֖ל יְאֹרֵ֥י מָצֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* I I.have.dug and I.have.drunk water and I.have.dried.up with the.sole my.feet my all the.canals of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

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[2 Kings 19:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.24/)

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אֲנִ֣י קַ֔רְתִּי וְשָׁתִ֖יתִי מַ֣יִם זָרִ֑ים וְאַחְרִב֙ בְּכַף־פְּעָמַ֔י כֹּ֖ל יְאֹרֵ֥י מָצֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* I I.have.dug and I.have.drunk water strange and I.have.dried.up with the.sole my.feet my all the.canals of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

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