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Strong's #7793 - שׁוּר
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Shur = “wall”
1) a place southwest of Palestine on the eastern border or within the border of Egypt; the Israelites passed through the wilderness of Shur after crossing the Red Sea
1a) also ‘wilderness of Etham’
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שׁוּר fut. יָשׁוּר
(1) i.q. תּור to go round, to go about, to journey, specially for the purpose of traffic, Ezekiel 27:25 compare Chaldee. Once followed by בְּ to go with any thing, i.e. to offer the thing, Isaiah 57:9. (Arabic سار Med. Ye, to go a journey, Chald. שְׁיָרָא a company of journeyers, of merchants, also on the Palmyr. Monumm.; see Tychsen, Element. Syr., p. 76.)
(2) to look around, or about (the same verb often having the power both of looking and going, see הִפְנָה, הִשְׁקִיף)
(a) used of one looking forth from a height, followed by מִן Song of Solomon 4:8.
(b) used of one lying in wait, to lie in wait, Jeremiah 5:26; Hosea 13:7 with an acc., Numbers 23:9.
(c) used of one who regards and cares for any thing, followed by an acc., like circumspicere aliquid (fich nach etwas umfehn). Job 24:15, לֹא תְשֻׁרֵנִי עַיִן “no eye will now care for me,” niemand fieht fich jeßt nach mir um. Job 35:5, שׁוּר שְׁחָקִים “look round about upon the clouds.” Job 35:13, שַׁדַּי לֹא יְשׁוּרֶנָּה “the Almighty will not regard it.” Simply
(d) to behold, Job 7:8
Pilel שׁוֹרֵר see שִׁיר.
Derivatives, שׁוּר No. I, תְּשׁוּרָה.
II. שׁוּר i.q. שִׁיר to sing, which see.
III. שׁוּר i.q. שָׂרַר, שָׂרָה to range, to put (stones) in order, hence שׁוּר a wall, compare שׂוֹרָה.
I. שׁוּר a lier in wait, an enemy, Psalms 92:12 compare שֹׁרֵר and the root I, 2, b.
II. שׁוּר
(1) i.q. Arab. سُورُ a wall, Genesis 49:22; Psalms 18:30. Plur. שׁוּרוֹת. Job 24:11, בֵּין שׁוּרוֹתָם “within their walls” (those of the rich), i.e. their houses.
(2) [Shur], pr.n. of a city on the borders of Egypt and Palestine, Genesis 16:7, 20:1 25:18 1 Samuel 15:7, 27:8. According to Josephus (Archæol., vi. 7, § 3; compare 1 Samuel 15:7), it is Pelusium, but this, in Hebrew, is called סִין. More correctly שׁוּר is placed where Suez now stands. The desert extending from the borders of Palestine to Shûr, is called, Exodus 15:22, מִדְבַּר שׁוּר; Numbers 33:8, מִדְבַּר אֵיתָם; now Jofar.
שׁוּר Chald. a wall, Ezra 4:13, 16 Ezra 4:16.
