תּוּר tur
Hebrew word for “to spy” · Strong’s H8446 · used 24 times in 23 verses
Meaning
1) to seek, search out, spy out, explore;
How it is translated
Glosses given for tur in context, with how often each is used:
- spy out 6
- seek out 2
- spied out 2
- merchants 2
- may spy out 1
- spying out 1
- had spied out 1
- those who spied out 1
- will go about 1
- caused to spy out 1
- explores 1
- makes a search 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers | 14 | 0.9 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 3 | 1.0 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Judges | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Proverbs | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Numbers 13 (6), Numbers 14 (5), Numbers 10 (1), Numbers 15 (1), Deuteronomy 1 (1), Judges 1 (1), 1 Kings 10 (1), 2 Chronicles 9 (1), Job 39 (1), Proverbs 12 (1)
Forms
- לתור 8
- התרים 3
- ויתרו 2
- ולתור 2
- תרתי 2
- מתור 1
- תרו 1
- תרתם 1
- תתרו 1
- ויתירו 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with tur more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- אֱנוֹשׁ enosh “human” 7
- נוּן nun “Nun” 3
- עֲרָב arav “Arabia” 2
- סִכְלוּת sikhlut “folly” 2
- דִּבָּה dibbah “slander” 2
- חׇכְמָה chokhmah “wisdom” 3
- יְפֻנֶּה yephunneh “Jephunneh” 2
- יְהוֹשׁוּעַ yehoshua “Joshua” 3
- שָׁלַח shalach “to send” 4
- פֶּחָה pechah “governor” 2
- כָּלֵב kalev “Caleb” 2
- רָאָה raah “to see” 4
Key verses
The verses using tur that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Numbers 10:33 — And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days’ journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days’ journey, to…
- Numbers 13:16 — These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
- Numbers 13:21 — So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
- Numbers 14:6 — And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
- Numbers 14:34 — After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall…
- Numbers 15:39 — And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your…
- Deuteronomy 1:33 — Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
- Proverbs 12:26 — The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
- Ecclesiastes 1:13 — And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to…
- Ecclesiastes 2:3 — I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the…
- Ecclesiastes 7:25 — I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and…
- Ezekiel 20:6 — In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey,…
See all 23 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.