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שׂוּר

sur · rule

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7786 · appears 2 times in the Bible

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What it means

sur (שׂוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rule”.

Be prince, rule as chief. Of the same family as "prince" and "chief."

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

  1. To rule over a people as its head, with power.
  2. To strive hard until one prevails, as Jacob did with the angel.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • he strove ×1
  • was prince ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Judges 9:22

    Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.

  • Hosea 12:4

    And he strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and pleaded with him; at Bethel he found him, and there he spoke with us: