Hebrew

To see

שׁוּרStrong’s H7789

shur

Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shur is the Hebrew word usually translated “observe him”, “it will observe me” and “watches”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.

“For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.”

Numbers 23:9 KJV

Meaning

To see, behold, observe, regard(Qal)

How it's translated

i observe him 2
it will observe me 2
he watches 2
will he observe it 1
it will see him 1
anyone perceives it 1
will he observe him 1
and observe 1

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

Where it's used most

Job 10
Numbers 2
Hosea 2
Jeremiah 1

4 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

All 15 verses, by book

Numbers 2: 23:9 24:17
Job 10: 7:8 17:15 20:9 24:15 33:14 33:27 34:29 35:5 35:13 35:14
Jeremiah 1: 5:26
Hosea 2: 13:7 14:8

Hebrew dictionary

שׁוּר shur · to see

1) to see, behold, observe, regard 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to behold, observe 1a2) to regard 1a3) to watch, watch (stealthily), lie in wait

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

SEE, noun.

The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop.
The seat of an archbishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archbishop; as an archiepiscopal see.
The seat, place or office of the pope or Roman pontif; as the papal see.
The authority of the pope or court of Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.

All definitions and other forms of “see”

To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and the apparent qualities of objects by the organs of sight; to behold.“I will now turn aside and see this great sight” Exodus 3:3“We have seen the land, and behold, it is very good” Judges 18:9
To observe; to note or notice; to know; to regard or look to; to take care; to attend, as to“See that ye fall not out by the way” Genesis 45:24
To discover; to descry; to understand.
To converse or have intercourse with.
To visit; as, to call and see a friend.
To attend; to remark or notice.
To behold with patience or sufferance; to endure.
In Scripture, to hear or attend to.“I turned to see the voice that spoke with me” Revelation 1:12
To feel; to suffer; to experience.“Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil” Psalms 90:15“If a man shall keep my saying, he shall never see death” John 8:51
To know; to learn.“Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren” Genesis 37:14
To perceive; to understand; to comprehend.
To perceive; to understand experimentally.“I see another law in my members” Romans 7:23
To beware.“See thou do it not. 9” Revelation 19:10
To know by revelation.“The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem” Isaiah 2:1
To have faith in and reliance on.“Seeing him who is invisible” Hebrews 11:27
To enjoy; to have fruition of.“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” Matthew 5:8

SEE, verb intransitive

To have the power of perceiving by the proper organs, or the power of sight.
To discern; to have intellectual seght; to penetrate; to understand; with through or into; as, to see through the plans or policy of another; to see into artful schemes and pretensions.
To eximane or inquere.
To be attentive.
To have full understanding.“But now ye say, we see, therefore your sin remaineth” John 9:41

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.