techor · tumors

What it means

techor (טְחֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tumors”.

Or painful swellings.

How to say it

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. Painful swellings on the body.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×7

• Deuteronomy 28:27

  YHWH will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with scabs and with itch, from which you will not be able to be healed.

• 1 Samuel 5:6

  And the hand of YHWH was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he devastated them and struck them with tumors, Ashdod and its territories.

• 1 Samuel 5:9

  And it happened, after they had moved it, that the hand of YHWH was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, from the small to the great, and tumors broke out on them.

• 1 Samuel 5:12

  And the men who did not die were struck with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to the heavens.

• 1 Samuel 6:4

  And they said, “What is the guilt offering that we shall restore to him?” And they said, “By the number of the lords of the Philistines, five gold tumors and five gold mice, for one plague was on all of them and on your lords.

• 1 Samuel 6:5

  So you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that are destroying the land, and give glory to the Elohim of Israel; perhaps he will lighten his hand from upon you and from upon your gods and from upon your land.

• 1 Samuel 6:11

  And they put the ark of YHWH on the cart, and the chest and the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.

• 1 Samuel 6:17

  And these are the gold tumors that the Philistines restored as a guilt offering to YHWH: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;