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תָּאַר

taar · mark out, bend

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8388 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

taar (תָּאַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mark out, bend”.

Mark out, trace the course of a line; said of a border, to bend toward a place.

How to say it

ta·ar

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 turn, like a border changing direction.
  2. To mark out the outline of something before carving it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • bent ×5
  • he marks it out ×2
  • turning ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Joshua 15:9

    and the border bent from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border bent to Baalah (that is Kiriath-jearim);

  • Joshua 15:11

    and the border went out to the slope of Ekron to the north, and the border bent to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out to Jabneel, and the ends of the border were at the sea.

  • Joshua 18:14

    And the border bent and turned on the west side southward from the hill that lies over against Beth-horon on the south, and its ends were at Kiriath-baal (that is Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the west side.

  • Joshua 18:17

    and it bent northward and went out to En-shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim, and went down to the stone of Bohan son of Reuben;

  • Joshua 19:13

    and from there it passed along eastward, toward the sunrise, to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and went out to Rimmon, turning to Neah;

  • Isaiah 44:13

    The craftsman of wood stretches out a line; he marks it out with a stylus; he makes it with planes, and with the compass he marks it out, and makes it like the figure of a man, like the beauty of a human being, to dwell in a house.

And 2 more times.