shur · gaze on, watch

What it means

shur (שׁוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gaze on, watch”.

Closely from afar.

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 see something, often from afar or with attention.
2. To fix one's eyes on someone carefully, as one who tends to him.
3. To lie in wait, hidden, to pounce on someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• perceive ×3
• I gaze on him ×2
• catch sight of me ×2
• perceive it ×2
• He looks ×1
• I will lurk ×1
• catch sight of him ×1
• they watch ×1
• watch over him ×1
• will catch sight of it ×1
• others ×1

Where it appears

• Numbers×2
• Job×10
• Song of Songs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×2

• Numbers 23:9

  For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I gaze on him. Look, a people that dwells alone, and does not count itself among the nations!

• Numbers 24:17

  I see him, but not now; I gaze on him, but not near. A star shall march forth from Jacob, and a scepter shall rise from Israel, and shall shatter the temples of Moab and tear down all the sons of Sheth.

• Job 7:8

  The eye of the one who sees me will not catch sight of me; your eyes will be on me, and I will be no more.

• Job 17:15

  where, then, is my hope? And my hope, who will catch sight of it?

• Job 20:9

  The eye that looked on him will not do so again, and his place will no longer catch sight of him.

• Job 24:15

  And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will catch sight of me,’ and he puts a covering on his face.

• Job 33:14

  For in one way El speaks, and in two, though one does not perceive it:

• Job 33:27

  He looks upon men and says, ‘I have sinned, and what is right I have perverted, and it was not repaid to me.’

• Job 34:29

  And when he gives quiet, who can declare him wicked? And when he hides his face, who can perceive him? So it is over a nation and over a human being alike,

• Job 35:5

  Look at the heavens and see, and perceive the clouds, that are higher than you.

• Job 35:13

  Surely emptiness El does not hear, and Shaddai does not perceive it.

• Job 35:14

  How much less when you say that you do not perceive him. The judgment is before him, and wait for him.

• Song of Songs 4:8

  With me from Lebanon, bride, with me from Lebanon you will come; you will look from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards.

• Jeremiah 5:26

  For among my people are found wicked men; they watch like the crouching of fowlers; they set a trap; they catch men.

• Hosea 13:7

  And I became to them like a fierce lion; like a leopard by the road I will lurk.

• Hosea 14:8

  Ephraim: “What have I to do any longer with idols?” I answer and watch over him; I am like a cypress that is green; from me your fruit is found.