זוּר zur

Hebrew word for “be a stranger” · Strong’s H2114 · used 77 times in 76 verses

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Meaning

1) to be strange, be a stranger;

Senses in the lexicon

• be a stranger (76)
• be loathsome (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for zur in context, with how often each is used:

• strangers 27
• stranger 20
• strange 15
• have become estranged 3
• strange gods 2
• strange woman 2
• turn aside 1
• estranged 1
• had become estranged 1
• strange women 1
• strange things 1
• strange god 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Job 19 (4), Proverbs 5 (4), Leviticus 22 (3), Numbers 3 (3), Exodus 30 (2), Numbers 18 (2), Proverbs 27 (2), Isaiah 1 (2), Isaiah 25 (2), Jeremiah 51 (2)

Forms

• זרים 25
• זר 20
• זרה 8
• והזר 4
• זרו 3
• לזרים 3
• וזר 2
• לזר 2
• זרות 2
• נזרו 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with zur more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נׇכְרִי nokhri “foreign” 12
• עָרִיץ arits “ruthless” 5
• עָרַב arav “to pledge” 5
• קָרֵב qarev “approaching” 4
• מוּת mut “to die” 8
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 7
• אֲבִיהוּא avihu “Abihu” 3
• קָרַב qarav “to present” 5
• אַהֲרֹן aharon “Aaron” 5
• נָדָב nadav “Nadab” 3
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 6
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 6

Key verses

The verses using zur that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 10:1 — And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the…
• Numbers 3:10 — And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
• Numbers 16:40 — To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not…
• Numbers 18:7 — Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your…
• Deuteronomy 32:16 — They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
• Isaiah 1:4 — Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One…
• Isaiah 1:7 — Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
• Isaiah 17:10 — Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and…
• Jeremiah 3:13 — Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and…
• Jeremiah 51:51 — We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s house.
• Hosea 8:7 — For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow…
• Joel 3:17 — So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her…

See all 76 verses in the Word Atlas

Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.