mur · exchange

What it means

mur (מוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “exchange”.

One thing for another, substitute; also change.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To make something different from what it was, or become other.
2. To put one thing in place of another.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• he does substitute ×4
• changed ×3
• change ×2
• changes ×2
• substitute ×2
• exchange it ×1
• they exchanged ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×6
• Psalms×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Micah×1

• Leviticus 27:10

  He shall not exchange it or substitute for it, a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a good one; and if he does substitute one beast for another beast, then both it and its substitute shall be holy.

• Leviticus 27:33

  He shall not inquire whether good or bad, and he shall not substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and its substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”

• Psalms 15:4

  in whose eyes the rejected one is despised, but those who fear YHWH he honors; he swears to his own hurt and does not change;

• Psalms 46:2

  Therefore we will not fear when the earth changes, and when the mountains are moved into the heart of the seas;

• Psalms 106:20

  And they exchanged their glory for the likeness of an ox that eats grass.

• Jeremiah 2:11

  Has a nation changed gods, even though they are not gods? But my people has changed its glory for what does not profit.

• Jeremiah 48:11

  Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has rested quietly on his lees, and he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, and into exile he has not gone; therefore his taste has remained in him, and his scent has not changed.

• Ezekiel 48:14

  And they shall not sell any of it, nor exchange it, nor transfer the first part of the land, for it is holy to YHWH.

• Hosea 4:7

  As they multiplied, so they sinned against me; their glory I will change into disgrace.

• Micah 2:4

  On that day one will take up against you a poem, and lament with a bitter lament and say, ‘We are utterly ruined; the portion of my people he changes; how he removes it from me! To the faithless he divides our fields.’

And 5 more times.