King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7789
Transliteration: shur
Phonetic Spelling: (shoor)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to behold, regard
Meaning: to spy out, survey, lurk for, care for
Word Summary
shur: to behold, regard
Original Word: שׁוּרTransliteration: shur
Phonetic Spelling: (shoor)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to behold, regard
Meaning: to spy out, survey, lurk for, care for
Strong's Concordance
behold, lay wait, look, observe, perceive, regard, see A primitive root (identical with shuwr through the idea of going round for inspection); to spy out, i.e. (generally) survey, (for evil) lurk for, (for good) care for -- behold, lay wait, look, observe, perceive, regard, see.
see HEBREW shuwr
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7789. shur
II. [שׁוּר] verb behold, regard (especially Job); —
Qal Imperfect3masculine singular יָשׁוּר Jeremiah 5:26, suffix יְשׁוּרֶנּוּ Job 34:29, etc.; Imperative masculine singular שׁוּר 35:5; —
1 behold, with accusative of person Numbers 23:9; 24:17 (poems in J E, "" רָאָה), תְּשׁוּרֵנִי לֹא, subject eye, Job 24:15, and (= I shall not exist) 7:8, compare 20:9 (subject מְקוֺמוֺ), 17:15; God object 34:29; 35:14; look, gaze, absolute, מִן local Song of Solomon 4:8.
2 regard with watchful care (subject ׳י) Hosea 14:9; so, = notice, Job 35:13; regard, observe, accusative of thing, God's word 33:14 (Hi De Da and others), so, (reading 2 masculine singular), Siegf Bu; Du יְשִׁיבֶנּוּ he (God) retracts it not.
3 watch stealthily, lie in wait, אָשׁוּר עַלדֶּֿרֶךְ בְּנָמֵר Hosea 13:7 (subject ׳י; Meinh Marti אֶשְׁקֹד; ᵑ9 ᵑ6 ᵐ5 We Now and others אַשּׁוּר), Jeremiah 5:26 (subject wicked). — Job 33:27 see שׁיר.