זוּר
zur
“be a stranger”
Definition
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
a primitive root;
- to be strange, be a stranger 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to become estranged 1a2) strange, another, stranger, foreigner, an enemy (participle) 1a3) strange woman, prostitute, harlot (meton) 1b) (Niphal) to be estranged 1c) (Hophal) to be a stranger, be one alienated
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
זוּר appears 69 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.
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I alone decreed and saved and proclaimed—I, and not some foreign god among you.So you are My witnesses,” declares the LORD,“that I am God.
I will see Him for myself;my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger.How my heart yearns within me!
On the day you stood aloofwhile strangers carried off his wealthand foreigners entered his gateand cast lots for Jerusalem,you were just like one of them.
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