To travel
שׁוּרStrong’s H7788shur
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shur is the Hebrew word usually translated “come down”, “journeyed” and “travelers your”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to travel, journey, gotraveller (participle) · (BDB) meaning uncertain
How it's translated
- you will come down 1
- and you journeyed 1
- travelers your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 57:9And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
- Ezekiel 27:25The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוּר shur · to travel
1) (Qal) to travel, journey, go 1a) traveller (participle) 1b) (BDB) meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “journey” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
JOURNEY, noun
jur'ny. [Latin diurnus, dies.]
- The travel of a day.
- Travel by land to any distance and for any time, indefinitely; as a journey from London to Paris, or to Rome; a journey to visit a brother; a week's journey; we made two journeys to Philadelphia.
- Passage form one place to another; as a long journey from the upper regions.
- It may sometimes include a passing by water.
All definitions and other forms of “journey”
JOURNEY, verb intransitive
jur'ny. To travel form place to place; to pass from home to a distance.
- “Abram journeyed, going on still towards the south” Genesis 12:9
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.