To spy
תּוּרStrong’s H8446tur
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tur is the Hebrew word usually translated “spy out”, “seek out” and “merchants”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days’ journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them.”
Meaning
- To seek, search out, spy out, explore(Qal) · (Hiphil) to make a search, make a reconnaissance
How it's translated
- to spy out 6
- to seek out 2
- the merchants 2
- so they may spy out 1
- and they spied out 1
- from spying out 1
- they had spied out 1
- those spied out 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 13
- Ecclesiastes 3
- Deuteronomy 1
- Judges 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 13:2Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
- Numbers 13:16These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
- Numbers 13:17And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
- Numbers 13:21So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
- Numbers 13:25And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
- Numbers 13:32And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
Hebrew dictionary
תּוּר tur · to spy
1) to seek, search out, spy out, explore 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to seek out, select, find out how to do something 1a2) to spy out, explore 1a2a) explorers, spies (participle) 1a3) to go about 1a3a) merchant, trader (participle) 1b) (Hiphil) to make a search, make a reconnaissance
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “spy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPY, noun
- A person sent into an enemys camp to inspect their works, ascertain their works, ascertain their strength and their intentions, to watch their movements, and secretly communicate intelligence to the proper officer.
- A person deputed to watch the conduct of others.
- One who watches the conduct of others.
All definitions and other forms of “spy”
SPY, verb transitive
- To see; to gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment.
- To discover by close search or examination; as, a lawyer in examining the pleadings in a case, spies a defect.
- To explore; to view, inspect and examine secretly; as a country; usually with out.“Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof” Numbers 21:32
SPY, verb intransitive
To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
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.