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HebrewH7793Noun

שׁוּר

shur

6Occurrences
H7793Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shur, a region of the Desert

the same as H7791 (שׁוּר);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Shur = "wall" a place southwest of Palestine on the eastern border or within the border of Egypt; the Israelites passed through the wilderness of Shur after crossing the Red Sea also 'wilderness of Etham'

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

שׁוּר appears 6 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
3
1 Samuel
2
Exodus
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 15:7BSB

Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

1 Samuel 27:8BSB

Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

Exodus 15:22BSB

Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.

Genesis 16:7BSB

Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.

Genesis 20:1BSB

Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

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