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title: דּוּר — heap up · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דּוּר (lemma:דּוּר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: heap up. BDB 1906: vb. heap up, pile dwell. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דּוּר

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«דּוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **heap up** — 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:** lemma:דּוּר · **BDB:** דּוּר

### Glosses

than.to.dwell (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

heap up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5bc_5d5_5bc_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. heap up, pile dwell [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5bc_5d5_5bc_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. heap up, pile. dwell (orig. move in a circle, go about, surround, cf. Arabic دَارَ; دَارٌ house, especially as group of buildings about a court; Assyrian dûru, wall, fortress, COTGloss.; thence (denom. Fl NHWBi. 440) dwell Aramaic דּוּר, ܕܳܪ (pt. \& Pa), hence in Heb. cf. Giesebr ZAW i. 304 Fl l.c. CheOP 479; Ethiopic ዳር generation (= דּוֹר: prob. loan-word); according to Hpt KAT2 Gloss.. i. Assyrian \[darû, endure\], dârû, everlasting (cf. Bez Orient Diplom.) = Arabic دَهْرٌ long time, age)— in Inf. מִדּוּר באהלי־רשׁע ψ 84:11 than to dwell in tents of wickedness. Imv. (or Inf. abs. irreg. for דּוֹר, cf. ‖ לָקוֹחַ) דּוּר העצמים Ez 24:5 heap up.—In Gn 6:3 some read Impf. 3 ms. יָדוּר shall dwell, for ידון; v. דין.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דּוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5bc_5d5_5bc_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 84:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.11/)

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כִּ֤י טֽוֹב־י֥וֹם בַּחֲצֵרֶ֗יךָ מֵ֫אָ֥לֶף בָּחַ֗רְתִּי הִ֭סְתּוֹפֵף בְּבֵ֣ית אֱלֹהַ֑י מִ֝דּ֗וּר בְּאָהֳלֵי־רֶֽשַׁע׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[is\].good a.day in courts your more than.a.thousand I.have.chosen to.stand.at.the.threshold in the.house my.God my more than.to.dwell in.\[the\] tents of.wickedness

*JPS 1917:* For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

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