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קוּר

kur · tear down; dig

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6979 · appears 6 times in the Bible

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What it means

kur (קוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tear down; dig”.

A word whose sense is debated in some passages.

How to say it

kur

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. Sink a well; make water spring up.
  2. Knock down, demolish.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • have dug ×2
  • pours out ×2
  • battering down ×1
  • tear down ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • 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.

  • 2 Kings 19:24

    I have dug and drunk foreign waters, and I will dry up with the sole of my feet all the rivers of Egypt.’

  • Isaiah 22:5

    For it is a day of panic and of trampling and of confusion from Adonai YHWH Tsevaot in the valley of Vision, a battering down of the wall and a cry to the mountain.

  • Isaiah 37:25

    I have dug and drunk waters, and I will dry up with the sole of my feet all the rivers of Egypt.’

  • Jeremiah 6:7

    As a well pours out its waters, so she pours out her evil; violence and devastation are heard in her; before me continually are sickness and wounds.

And 1 more times.