White
חוּרStrong’s H2353chur
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chur is the Hebrew word usually translated “white material” and “white cloth”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.”
Meaning
- White cloth, white stuff
How it's translated
- white material 1
- and white cloth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
חוּר chur · white
white cloth, white stuff
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “white” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHITE, adjective
[G.]
- Being in the color of pure snow; snowy; not dark; as white paper; a white skin.
- Pale; destitute of color in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; as white with fear.
- Having the color of purity; pure; clean; free from spot; as white robed innocence.
- Gray; as white hair; a venerable man, white with age.
All definitions
- Pure; unblemished.
- In a scriptural sense, purified from sin; sanctified. Psalms 51:7
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.