חוּר
chur · hole
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2352 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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chur (חוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hole”.
A hole: a snake's hole, or a prison cell.
How to say it
chur
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
- A hollow in the ground where an animal lives or someone is shut in.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- holes ×1
- over the hole ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Isaiah 11:8
And the nursing child will play over the hole of the viper, and over the den of the cobra the weaned child will stretch out his hand.
- Isaiah 42:22
But this is a people plundered and despoiled; all of them are trapped in the holes, and in houses of prison they are hidden; they have become plunder, and there is no one to deliver; spoil, and there is no one to say, “Give it back!”