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HebrewH2354Proper Noun (Masculine)

חוּר

chur

15Occurrences
H2354Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Chur, the name of four Israelites and one Midianite

the same as H2353 (חוּר) or H2352 (חוּר);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at ; son of: Caleb (H3612H) and Ephrathah (H0672); half-brother of: Jesher (H3475), Shobab (H7727H), Ardon (H0715), Mareshah@ (H4337), Haran (H2771B), Moza (H4162), Gazez (H1495), Jahdai (H3056), Sheber (H7669), Tirhanah (H8647), Shaaph (H8174H), Sheva (H7724) and Achsah (H5915H); father of: Uri (H0221), Shobal (H7732H), Salma (H8007H), Hareph (H2780), Jezreel (H3157J), Ishma (H3457), Idbash (H3031), Hazzelelponi (H6753), Penuel (H6439H) and Ezer (H5829) § Hur = "hole" 1) a chief assistant to Moses and ) grandfather of Bezaleel, the chief artificer of the tabernacle; possibly the same as 1 above 3) the 4th of the 5 kings of Midian who were slain with Balaam after ) father of Rephaiah in the time of Nehemiah 5) father of Ben-Hur who was commissariat officer for Solomon in Mount Ephraim

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

חוּר appears 15 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Exodus
6
1 Chronicles
5
2 Chronicles
1
Joshua
1
Nehemiah
1
Numbers
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 2:19BSB

When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore to him Hur.

1 Chronicles 4:1BSB

The descendants of Judah:Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.

Exodus 17:10BSB

Joshua did as Moses had instructed him and fought against the Amalekites, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

Exodus 31:2BSB

“See, I have called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

Joshua 13:21BSB

all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.