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title: תּוֹר — plait · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תּוֹר (8448), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: plait. BDB 1906: n.m. plait, turn. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תּוֹר

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«תּוֹר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **plait** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 8448 · **BDB:** תּוֹר

### Glosses

to.the.order (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

plait [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8448/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. plait, turn [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8448/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. plait, turn (Arabic تَارَةٌ period, succession (περίοδος));—pl. תּוֹרִים plaits (of hair?) Ct 1:10, cstr. תּוֹרֵי זָהָב v 11 plaits, circlets of gold; sg. turn, opportunity, cstr. תֹּר נַעֲרָה Est 2:12, cf. v 15.—תּוֹר אדם 1 Ch 17:17 is corrupt, ‖ 2 S 7:19 תּוֹרַת הָאָדָם, also difficult, v. תּוֹרָה 3, p. 436; Klo PerlesAnal. 68 תֹּאַר, q.v.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (13 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תּוֹר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8448/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 17:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.17.17/)

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וַתִּקְטַ֨ן זֹ֤את בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ אֱלֹהִ֔ים וַתְּדַבֵּ֥ר עַל־בֵּֽית־עַבְדְּךָ֖ לְמֵרָח֑וֹק וּרְאִיתַ֗נִי כְּת֧וֹר הָאָדָ֛ם הַֽמַּעֲלָ֖ה יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.small this.\[thing\] in eyes your O.God and you.have.spoken on the.house your.servant your (to).from distant \[time\] and you have.seen.me according to.the.order of.(the) humankind the.going up O.Yahweh God

*JPS 1917:* And this was a small thing in Thine eyes, O God; but Thou hast spoken of Thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me after the manner of a man of high degree, O LORD God.

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