STRONGS NUMBER H7789


Word Summary
shur: to behold, regard
Original Word: שׁוּר
Transliteration: 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 יָשׁוּרJeremiah 5:26, suffix יְשׁוּרֶנּוּJob 34:29, etc.; Imperative masculine singular שׁוּר35:5; —

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 יְשִׁיבֶנּוּhe (God) retracts it not.

3 watch stealthily, lie in wait, אָשׁוּר עַלדֶּֿרֶךְ בְּנָמֵרHosea 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.