Tumor
טְחֹרStrong’s H2914techor (te-chor)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Techor is the Hebrew word usually translated “tumors of”, “tumors” and “tumors your”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.”
Meaning
- Tumours, haemorrhoids, piles
How it's translated
- tumors of 2
- and with tumors 1
- with tumors 1
- tumors 1
- with the tumors 1
- tumors your 1
- tumors their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 7
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 5:6But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
- 1 Samuel 5:9And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
- 1 Samuel 5:12And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
- 1 Samuel 6:4Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
- 1 Samuel 6:5Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
- 1 Samuel 6:11And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
Hebrew dictionary
טְחֹר techor · tumor
tumours, haemorrhoids, piles
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tumor” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TU'MOR, noun
[Latin from tumeo, to swell.]
In surgery, a swelling; a morbid enlargement of any part of the body; a word of very comprehensive signification.
- Affected pomp; bombast in language; swelling word or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. [Little used.]
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.