דּוּרָא
Dura
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Dura’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1757 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 1 verse
About this entry
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דורא (Dûwrâʼ) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Dura.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Daniel, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Found nowhere else but Daniel 3:1. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1757 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Dura 1×
- American Standard Version: Dura 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Dura 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Dura 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1757 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1757 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1757 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1757 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Dura = "dwelling"
- a place in Babylonia where Nebuchadnezzar set up the golden image, site uncertain
Word origin
דּוּרָא n.pr.loc. near Bab., only Dn 3:1
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דור (dûwr) (H1753) — to dwell.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דּוּרָא I
- m. (v. דּוּר I) district, settlement, village (corresp. to h. חָצֵר). B. Bath. 54ᵇ ד׳ דרעוותא Ms. M. (ed. דרעואתא); Erub. 12ᵃ דּוּרָה דרעותא Shephardville (v., however, Berl. Beitr. z. Geogr. Babyl. p. 30).—Pes. 40ᵃ ד׳ דבי וכ׳ the settlement of Be-Ḥashu.—Pl. דּוּרָתַיָּא. Targ. Ps. X, 8 ed. Lag. (Var. דרתיא, v. דַּרְתָּא; Ms. דּוּרָאתָיָיא).
דּוּרָא II
- , v. Ges. H. Dict. s. v.) dura, name of a jewel, mother of pearl(?). Targ. Esth. I, 6 ד׳ דכרכי וכ׳ the dura of the Sea places.—Esth. R. to l. c. אית אתר … למרגליתא דּוּרָה there is a place where a pearl (or jewel) is called durah; Meg. 12ᵃ there is a precious stone in the Sea places ודִירָה שמה Ms. M. (ed. דָּרָה) whose name is dirah (darah); Y. Snh. X, 28ᵃ top תמן קריין … דירה there (at a certain place) they call &c.
דּוּרָא III
- (דּוּר I) a parasite worm in the bowels. Num. R. s. 7 [read:] שאהיה נותן ד׳ במעיהן; v. דְּרַרְיָא.
דּוּרָא IV
- (דרי II) burden, load. B. Kam. 92ᵇ (prov.) אי דלית ד׳ וכ׳ (our w. missing in Ar. s. v. דלא) if thou wilt lift the burden, I shall lift (if you will share the responsibility, I shall take the lead).
*דּוּרָא IV
- , or דַּוָּרָא, בֵּי ך׳ (cmp. דַּוָּאר I) Be-Dura (Davvara), a station near Hagronia. Ber. 31ᵃ ed. (Ms. M. דיירא, without בי; Ms. F. בי דירא; oth. var. דראי, דרא, בי דודא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1757, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Dura). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
The circle, the plain near Babylon in which Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image, mentioned in Dan. 3:1. The place still retains its ancient name. On one of its many mounds the pedestal of what must have been a colossal statue has been found. It has been supposed to be that of the golden image.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(a circle), the plain where Nebuchadnezzar set up the golden image, (Daniel 3:1) has been sometimes identified with a tract a little below Tekrit, on the left bank of the Tigris, where the name Dur is still found. M. Oppert places the plain (or, as he calls it, the "valley") of Dura to the southeast of Babylon, in the vicinity of the mound of Dowair or Duair, where was found the pedestal of a huge statue.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
same as Dor
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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