tor · turn

What it means

tor (תּוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “turn”.

The moment that falls to each one, in order.

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. Each one's allotted moment.
2. Chains or plaits of gold and silver with which the face and neck were adorned.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• ornaments ×2
• turn ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Esther×2
• Song of Songs×2

• Esther 2:12

  And when the turn of each young woman came to go in to King Ahasuerus, at the end of twelve months of her being according to the law of the women (for so the days of their ointments were completed: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and with the ointments of the women),

• Esther 2:15

  And when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, came to go in to the king, she did not seek anything except what Hegai, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women, said. And Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her.

• Song of Songs 1:10

  Lovely are your cheeks with ornaments, your neck with necklaces.

• Song of Songs 1:11

  Ornaments of gold we will make for you with studs of silver.