STRONGS NUMBER H2914


Word Summary
techor: tumors (a result of dysentery)
Original Word: טְחֹר
Transliteration: techor
Phonetic Spelling: (tekh-ore')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: tumors (a result of dysentery)
Meaning: a boil, ulcer, a tumor, in the anus, pudenda
Strong's Concordance
emerod

From an unused root meaning to burn; a boil or ulcer (from the inflammation), especially a tumor in the anus or pudenda (the piles) -- emerod.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2914. techor

[טְחוֺר‎] noun masculine1 Samuel 6:4 only plural tumours, result of dysentery (see Aramaic √) (so Aramaic טְחוֺרַיָּא‎, ) — chiefly Qr for Kt עפלֵי עפלים,‎ hemorrhoids: namely טְחֹרִים‎ Deuteronomy 28:27; 1 Samuel 5:6, 9, 12; זֶהָב טְחֹרֵי‎ 6:4; טְחֹרֵיכֶם צַלְמֵי‎ 6:5; twice it has found its way into the Kt הַזָּהָב טְחֹרֵי‎ 6:17, טְחֹרֵיהֶם צַלְמֵי‎ 6:11; WeSam. 27n., compare GeiUrschrift 408 f.

טטף‎ (perhaps √ of following; meaning dubious; DlPr 46 compare Assyrian ‰a‰âpu, surround, encircle; Thes Di proposes √ טוף‎ (compare Arabic go around, whence טוטפות‎ = טפטפוֺת‎; Kn., following by KleinJPTh 1881, 673 and elsewhere, assumes √ טפף‎ tap, strike, compare στίγμα, and thinks of actual sign or mark in the flesh as originally meant).