To explain
בּוּרStrong’s H0952bur
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Bur is the Hebrew word usually translated “make clear”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.”
Meaning
- (Qal)to make clear, clear up, explain, prove · (CLBL) to bore into · (TWOT) to declare (?)
How it's translated
- and to make clear 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
בּוּר bur · to explain
1) (Qal) 1a) to make clear, clear up, explain, prove 1b) (CLBL) to bore into 1c) (TWOT) to declare (?)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “explain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EXPLA'IN, verb transitive
[Latin explano; ex and planus, plain, open, smooth.]
All definitions and other forms of “explain”
EXPLA'IN, verb intransitive
To give explanations.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.