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HebrewH5493Verb

סוּר

sur

266Occurrences
H5493Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to turn off (literal or figurative)

or שׂוּר; (Hosea 9:12), a primitive root;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
remove 1) to turn aside, depart 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to turn aside, turn in unto 1a2) to depart, depart from way, avoid 1a3) to be removed 1a4) to come to an end 1b) (Polel) to turn aside 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to turn aside, cause to depart, remove, take away, put away, depose 1c2) to put aside, leave undone, retract, reject, abolish 1d) (Hophal) to be taken away, be removed

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

H:V

Full Description

Hebrew Verb

Occurrences

סוּר appears 266 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Kings
30
Isaiah
23
1 Samuel
20
2 Chronicles
18
Job
17
Proverbs
17
Deuteronomy
15
Judges
14

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 13:13BSB

So he did not move the ark with him to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

2 Kings 13:6BSB

Nevertheless, they did not turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, but they continued to walk in them. The Asherah pole even remained standing in Samaria.

Deuteronomy 5:32BSB

So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.

Isaiah 30:11BSB

Get out of the way; turn off the road.Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”

Joshua 23:6BSB

Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.

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