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title: אוּר — Ur · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אוּר (lemma:אוּר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Ur. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אוּר

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«אוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ur** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** lemma:אוּר · **BDB:** אוּר²

### Glosses

Ur (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ur [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5d5_5bc_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5d5_5bc_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (flame) father of one of David’s heroes 1 Ch 11:35 (iii. אוּר n.pr.loc. v. infr.)—iii. אוּר in אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים. Ur of the Chaldees Gn 11:28, 31; 15:7 Ne 9:7.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5d5_5bc_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 11:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.28/)

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וַיָּ֣מָת הָרָ֔ן עַל־פְּנֵ֖י תֶּ֣רַח אָבִ֑יו בְּאֶ֥רֶץ מוֹלַדְתּ֖וֹ בְּא֥וּר כַּשְׂדִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Haran on the.face of.Terah father his in the.land his.kindred his in Ur of.\[the\].Chaldeans

*JPS 1917:* And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

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[Nehemiah 9:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.9.7/)

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אַתָּה־הוּא֙ יְהוָ֣ה הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר בָּחַ֙רְתָּ֙ בְּאַבְרָ֔ם וְהוֹצֵאת֖וֹ מֵא֣וּר כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים וְשַׂ֥מְתָּ שְּׁמ֖וֹ אַבְרָהָֽם׃

*Word for word:* you he \[are\].Yahweh (the) God who you.chose (in) Abram and you brought.him.out from Ur of.\[the\].Chaldeans and you.made name his Abraham

*JPS 1917:* Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;

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