עוּר ur

Hebrew word for “to rouse” · Strong’s H5782 · used 80 times in 65 verses

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Meaning

1) to rouse oneself, awake, awaken, incite;

How it is translated

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

• awake 13
• awake ! 6
• stirred up 5
• about to rouse 5
• will be roused 4
• wielded 3
• rouse 3
• will stir up 3
• will rouse 2
• will waken 2
• will awaken 2
• will arouse 2

Where it is used

Also in 8 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Joel 3 (3), 1 Chronicles 11 (2), Ezra 1 (2), Song of Solomon 8 (2), Isaiah 41 (2), Isaiah 51 (2), Jeremiah 50 (2), Jeremiah 51 (2), Daniel 11 (2), Deuteronomy 32 (1)

Forms

• עורי 12
• יעיר 7
• העיר 5
• עורה 5
• מעיר 5
• עורר 4
• ויער 4
• תעירו 3
• יעור 3
• יערו 2

Words used with it

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

• רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 9
• קִיץ quts “to awake” 5
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 8
• גָּדוֹל gadol “great” 7
• אַהֲבָה ahavah “love” 4
• קוּם qum “to arise” 7
• צָפוֹן tsaphon “north” 5
• גִּבּוֹר gibbor “mighty man” 5
• עַד ad “till” 8
• צָבָא tsava “Hosts” 6
• חָפֵץ chaphets “to delight in” 4
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 6

Key verses

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

• Ezra 1:1 — Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus…
• Psalms 7:6 — Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
• Psalms 78:38 — But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
• Song of Solomon 5:2 — I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled…
• Isaiah 42:13 — The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
• Isaiah 50:4 — The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he…
• Isaiah 51:9 — Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded…
• Isaiah 51:17 — Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and…
• Isaiah 52:1 — Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the…
• Jeremiah 51:11 — Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it;…
• Zechariah 9:13 — When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty…
• Zechariah 13:7 — Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and…

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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.