סוּר

sur · turn aside, remove

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5493 · appears 301 times in the Bible

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What it means

sur (סוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “turn aside, remove”.

Turn aside, turn away; remove, take away.

How to say it

sur

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

To leave the road, go away.
To take away something from where it was: an altar, a load, an office, loyal love.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Turn aside, turn away; in the causative form, remove, take away. BDB defines it as to turn off, literally or figuratively.

To turn aside from the road to go and see something Exodus 3:3 Exodus 3:4
To turn aside from the commanded way, to the right or to the left Exodus 32:8 Deuteronomy 5:32
To turn away from evil Job 1:1 Proverbs 3:7
The spirit of YHWH departs from someone 1 Samuel 16:14
To remove: foreign gods, high places Genesis 35:2 1 Kings 15:14

How we translate it

“Remove” 51 times, “removed” 48, “turn away” 41, “turn aside” 33, “turned aside” 25, “depart” 22, “put away” 8. The simple form is translated “turn aside”, “turn away” or “depart”, and the causative “remove” or “put away”. With the high places, “were not removed” (1 Kings 15:14).

How it is translated

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

remove ×51
removed ×48
turn away ×41
turn aside ×33
turned aside ×25
depart ×22
put away ×8
turned away ×8
take away ×7
taken away ×5
others ×53

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Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

Genesis 8:13
And it happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and look, the face of the ground had dried.
Genesis 19:2
He said, “Look now, my lords, please turn aside to the house of your servant, spend the night, and wash your feet; then you can rise early and go on your way.” They said, “No, we will spend the night in the square.”
Genesis 19:3
But he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
Genesis 30:32
Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there every animal speckled and spotted, and every dark animal among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such will be my wages.
Genesis 30:35
On that day he removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every dark one among the lambs, and he gave them into the hands of his sons.
Genesis 35:2
So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.
Genesis 38:14
She removed her widow’s garments from her, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself, and sat at the entrance of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.
Genesis 38:19
She arose and went away and removed her veil from her and put on her widow’s garments.
Genesis 41:42
Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on the hand of Joseph; he clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a chain of gold around his neck.
Genesis 48:17
When Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it was displeasing in his eyes; and he took hold of his father’s hand to move it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh.
Genesis 49:10
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him will be the obedience of the peoples.
Exodus 3:3
And Moses said, “Let me turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn up.”
Exodus 3:4
When YHWH saw that he had turned aside to look, Elohim called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Exodus 8:8
Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to YHWH that he remove the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to YHWH.”
Exodus 8:11
The frogs will depart from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”
Exodus 8:29
Moses said, “Look, I am going out from you, and I will pray to YHWH, and the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only let Pharaoh not again deal deceitfully by not letting the people go to sacrifice to YHWH.”
Exodus 8:31
YHWH did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained.
Exodus 10:17
So now, please forgive my sin only this time, and pray to YHWH your Elohim that he only remove this death from me.”
Exodus 14:25
He removed the wheels of their chariots and made them drive with difficulty. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for YHWH is fighting for them against Egypt.”
Exodus 23:25
You shall serve YHWH your Elohim, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.
Exodus 25:15
In the rings of the ark the poles shall be; they shall not be removed from it.
Exodus 32:8
They have turned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a calf of cast metal and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”
Exodus 33:23
Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”
Exodus 34:34
And whenever Moses went in before YHWH to speak with him, he would take off the veil until he came out; and he would come out and speak to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded.
Leviticus 1:16
He shall remove its crop with its feathers and throw it beside the altar on the east side, into the place of the ashes.
Leviticus 3:4
the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.
Leviticus 3:9
From the sacrifice of peace he shall present as a fire offering to YHWH its fat: the whole fat tail, which he shall remove close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,
Leviticus 3:10
the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.
Leviticus 3:15
the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.
Leviticus 4:9
the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys,
Leviticus 4:31
All its fat he shall remove, just as the fat is removed from the sacrifice of peace, and the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar for a pleasing aroma to YHWH. So the priest shall make expiation for him, and he will be forgiven.
Leviticus 4:35
All its fat he shall remove, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace, and the priest shall offer up in smoke them on the altar, on top of the fire offerings of YHWH. So the priest shall make expiation for him for his sin that he has committed, and he will be forgiven.
Leviticus 7:4
the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe on the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.
Leviticus 13:58
But the garment, or the woven material or the knitted material, or any article of skin that you wash, and the mark departs from them, shall be washed a second time and be clean.
Numbers 12:10
And the cloud withdrew from over the tent, and look, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and look, she was leprous.
Numbers 14:9
Only do not rebel against YHWH; and you, do not fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their shade has turned away from over them, and YHWH is with us; do not fear them.”
Numbers 16:26
And he spoke to the community, saying, “Turn away, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything of theirs, lest you be swept away in all their sins.”
Numbers 21:7
And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against YHWH and against you. Pray to YHWH, that he may take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
Deuteronomy 2:27
“Let me pass through your land. By the road, by the road I will go; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.
Deuteronomy 4:9
Only guard yourself and keep your soul carefully, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen and so that they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and to the children of your children.

And 261 more times.