Degenerate
סוּרStrong’s H5494sur
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sur is the Hebrew word usually translated “degenerate of” and “disloyal my”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?”
Meaning
- Degenerate
How it's translated
- degenerate of 1
- and disloyal my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
סוּר sur · degenerate
degenerate
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “degenerate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEGENERATE, verb intransitive
[Latin Grown worse, ignoble, base.]
- To become worse; to decay in good qualities; to pass from a good to a bad or worse state; to lose or suffer a diminution of valuable qualities, either in the natural or moral world.
All definitions and other forms of “degenerate”
DEGENERATE, adjective
- Having fallen from a perfect or good state into a less excellent or worse state; having lost something of the good qualities possessed; having declined in natural or moral worth.“The degenerate plant of a strange vine” Jeremiah 2:21
- Low; base; mean; corrupt; fallen from primitive or natural excellence; having lost the good qualities of the species.
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.