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Row

טוּרStrong’s H2905

tur

Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tur is the Hebrew word usually translated “rows”, “row” and “rows of”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.

“And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.”
Exodus 28:17 KJV
Meaning
  1. Rowrow, course (of building) · row (of jewels)
How it's translated
  • rows 9
  • and the row 6
  • the row 3
  • rows of 3
  • a row of 2
  • and a row of 2
  • and a row of stones 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Kings 9
  • Exodus 8
  • 2 Chronicles 2
  • Ezekiel 1

4 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

טוּר tur · row

1) row 1a) row, course (of building) 1b) row (of jewels)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “row” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

ROW, noun

    All definitions and other forms of “row”

      ROW, verb transitive

      [Gr. to row an oar. If the noun is the primary word, ruder and rother, an oar, may be from the root of rod, Latin radius, or from the root of rado, to rub, grate, sweep. If the verb is the primary word, the sense is to sweep, to urge, drive, impel. See Rudder.]

      1. To impel, as a boat or vessel along the surface of water by oars; as, to row a boat.
      2. To transport by rowing; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.

      ROW, verb intransitive

      To labor with the oar; as, to row well; to row with oars muffled.

        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.