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title: שׁוּר — behold · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׁוּר (7789), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 15 times: behold. BDB 1906: vb. behold, regard. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׁוּר

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«שׁוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **behold** — 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:** 15 times · **Key:** 7789 · **BDB:** שׁוּר²

### Glosses

I (3); it (3); he.watches (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

behold [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7789/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. behold, regard [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7789/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. behold, regard (especially Jb);— Impf. 3 ms. יָשׁוּר Je 5:26, sf. יְשׁוּרֶנּוּ Jb 34:29, etc.; Imv. ms. שׁוּר Jb 35:5;— behold, c. acc. pers. Nu 23:9; 24:17 (poems in JE, ‖ רָאָה), לֹא תְּשׁוּרֵנִי, subj. eye, Jb 24:15, and (= I shall not exist) 7:8, cf. 20:9 (subj. מְקוֹמוֹ), 17:15; God object 34:29; 35:14; look, gaze, abs., מִן loc. Ct 4:8. regard with watchful care (subj. י׳) Ho 14:9; so, = notice, Jb 35:13; regard, observe, acc. rei, God’s word Jb 33:14 (Hi De Da al.), so, (reading 2 ms.), Siegf Bu; Du יְשִׁיבֶנָּה he (God) retracts it not. watch stealthily, lie in wait, כְּנָמֵר עַל־דֶּרֶךְ אָשׁוּר Ho 13:7 (subj. י׳; Meinh Marti אֶשְׁקֹד; 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 We Now al. אַשּׁוּר), Je 5:26 (subj. wicked).—Jb 33:27 v. שׁיר.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (22 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (18 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שׁוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7789/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 35:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.35.5/)

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הַבֵּ֣ט שָׁמַ֣יִם וּרְאֵ֑ה וְשׁ֥וּר שְׁ֝חָקִ֗ים גָּבְה֥וּ מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* look.at \[the\].heavens and see and observe \[the\].clouds they.are.high more than.you

*JPS 1917:* Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.

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[Job 35:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.35.13/)

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אַךְ־שָׁ֭וְא לֹא־יִשְׁמַ֥ע ׀ אֵ֑ל וְ֝שַׁדַּ֗י לֹ֣א יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* surely emptiness not he.hears God and.\[the\] Almighty not he observes.it

*JPS 1917:* Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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