תּוּר
tur
“to spy”
Definition
to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially fortrade or reconnoitring
a primitive root;
- to seek, search out, spy out, explore 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to seek out, select, find out how to do something 1a2) to spy out, explore 1a2a) explorers, spies (participle) 1a3) to go about 1a3a) merchant, trader (participle) 1b) (Hiphil) to make a search, make a reconnaissance
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Occurrences
תּוּר appears 23 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
not including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.
I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
He roams the mountains for pasture,searching for any green thing.
When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.
Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
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