To crush
זוּרStrong’s H2115zur
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zur is the Hebrew word usually translated “squeezed out”, “it will crush it” and “have been pressed out”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to press, squeeze, crush, press down and outto close up (of a wound)
How it's translated
- and he squeezed out 1
- it will crush it 1
- they have been pressed out 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 39:15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
- Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Hebrew dictionary
זוּר zur · to crush
1) (Qal) to press, squeeze, crush, press down and out 1a) to close up (of a wound)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crush” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRUSH, verb transitive
- To press and bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to force a thing out of its natural shape; to bruise by pressure.
- To press with violence; to force together into a mass.
- To overwhelm by pressure; to beat or force down, by an incumbent weight, with breaking or bruising; as, the man was crushed by the fall of a tree.“Who are crushed before the moth” Job 4:19
- To overwhelm by power; to subdue; to conquer beyond resistance; as, to crush ones enemies; to crush a rebellion.
All definitions and other forms of “crush”
- To oppress grievously.“Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always” Deuteronomy 28:33
- To bruise and break into fine particles by beating or grinding; to comminute.
CRUSH, verb intransitive
To be pressed into a smaller compass by external weight or force.
CRUSH, noun
A violent collision, or rushing together, which breaks or bruises the bodies; or a fall that breaks or bruises into a confused mass; as the crush of a large tree, or of a building.
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.