Crane
עָגוּרStrong’s H5693agur (a-gur)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Agur is the Hebrew word usually translated “crane”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.”
Meaning
- Name of a birdperhaps a thrush, swallow, crane
How it's translated
- a crane 1
- and a crane 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
עָגוּר agur · crane
1) name of a bird 1a) perhaps a thrush, swallow, crane
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crane” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRANE, noun
[Gr., the plant, cranes-bill.]
- A migratory fowl of the genus Ardea, belonging to the grallic order.
- A machine for raising great weights, consisting of a horizontal arm, or piece of timber, projecting from a post, and furnished with a tackle or pulley.
- A siphon, or crooked pipe for drawing liquors out of a cask.
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.