tur · explore, seek out

What it means

tur (תּוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “explore, seek out”.

Go about a place to explore it or spy it out; also to seek.

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. To go through a land to learn about it.
2. To search carefully, or to look ahead for a place for others.
3. To go from place to place trading.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• explore ×10
• explored ×5
• exploring ×2
• I had searched out ×1
• guides ×1
• had men scout out ×1
• seek out ×1
• who traveled about ×1
• who traveled the land ×1

Where it appears

• Numbers×14
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×3
• Ezekiel×1

• Numbers 10:33

  And they set out from the mountain of YHWH a journey of three days, and the ark of the covenant of YHWH went before them a journey of three days to seek out for them a resting place.

• Numbers 13:2

  “Send for yourself men, and let them explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel. One man from each tribe of their fathers you shall send, every one a chief among them.”

• Numbers 13:16

  These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore the land. And Moses called Hoshea son of Nun Joshua.

• Numbers 13:17

  Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up this way into the Negev, and go up into the hill country,

• Numbers 13:21

  So they went up and explored the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.

• Numbers 13:25

  At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.

• Numbers 13:32

  And they spread a bad report of the land that they had explored among the sons of Israel, saying, “The land that we passed through to explore it is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are men of great size.

• Numbers 14:6

  And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes

• Numbers 14:7

  and said to all the community of the sons of Israel, saying, “The land that we passed through to explore it is a good land, very, very good.

• Numbers 14:34

  According to the number of the days that you explored the land, forty days, a day for a year, a day for a year, you shall bear your iniquities, forty years, and you shall know my opposition.

• Numbers 14:36

  And the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, and who returned and made all the community grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land,

• Numbers 14:38

  But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to explore the land.

• Numbers 15:39

  And it shall be a fringe for you, and you shall see it and remember all the commandments of YHWH and do them, and you shall not go exploring after your heart and after your eyes, after which you prostitute yourselves,

• Deuteronomy 1:33

  who went before you on the way to explore for you a place to camp, in fire by night, to show you the way in which you should go, and in the cloud by day.

• Judges 1:23

  The house of Joseph had men scout out Bethel (the name of the city formerly was Luz).

• 1 Kings 10:15

  besides that from the men who traveled the land and from the trade of the traders, and from all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land.

• 2 Chronicles 9:14

  besides what the men who traveled about and the merchants brought; and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought gold and silver to Solomon.

• Proverbs 12:26

  The righteous guides his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

• Ecclesiastes 1:13

  And I gave my heart to seek and to explore by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens; it is a bad occupation that Elohim has given to human beings to be occupied with it.

• Ecclesiastes 2:3

  I explored in my heart to draw my flesh with wine while my heart was guiding me with wisdom, and to lay hold on witlessness, until I might see what was good for human beings that they should do under the heavens during the number of the days of their life.

• Ecclesiastes 7:25

  I turned, I and my heart, to know and to explore and to seek wisdom and the reckoning, and to know the wickedness of senselessness and the witlessness of madness.

• Ezekiel 20:6

  on that day I raised my hand to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, it is the jewel of all the lands.

And 1 more times.