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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #1757 - דּוּרָא

Transliteration

Dûwrâʼ

Phonetics

doo-raw'

Origin

probably from (H1753)

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Dura = "dwelling"
1. a place in Babylonia where Nebuchadnezzar set up the golden image, site uncertain

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Daniel 1

BSB (1)

Daniel 1

CSB (1)

Daniel 1

ESV (1)

Daniel 1

KJV (1)

Daniel 1

LEB (1)

Daniel 1

LSB (1)

Daniel 1

N95 (1)

Daniel 1

NAS (1)

Daniel 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Daniel 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

דּוּרָא proper name, of a location near Babylonia, only ׳בִּקְעַת ד Daniel 3:1, ᵐ5. τοῦ περιβόλου (Syro-Hex. περίβολον), Θ Δεειρα; Dûru is name of several places in Babylonia Dl^{Par. 216}; Baer^{Dn. p. x}, compare Andr^{M 58}*; Hoffm^{Pers. Märtyrer 164f.}; name of small river and mounds Opp^{Expéd. i. 238f.} (see Dr); improbably explained as =

zôr, depression (name actually used of lower Euphrase and Tigris valleys) by Wetzst^{De Jes:3 701f.}; Babylonian dûru = wall.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

דּוּרָא [Dura], Ch. pr.n. of a plain in Babylonia, Daniel 3:1. With this has been compared the city Dura (Ammianus Marcell. xxv. 6) situated on the Tigris, or another of the same name (Polyb. v. 48), on the Euphrates, near the mouth of the Chaboras. See Miscellan. Lips. Nova, t. v., p. 274.

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List of Word Forms

דּוּרָ֔א דורא dū·rā duRa dūrā