טוּר
mountain
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (50%)
- Particle, Definite Article 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2906 appears — 2 distinct verses 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 2 verses
- Daniel 2:35 לְ/ט֥וּר prep + n c ms Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 2:45 מִ/טּוּרָ/א֩ prep + n c ms det + ptcl def.art Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, טור (ṭûwr) means “mountain.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. The word gravitates to Daniel (100%). Scripture first uses it in Daniel 2:35. It clusters with צור, צורה and צור under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2906 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 2 verses 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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Mountain 2×
- American Standard Version†: Mountain 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Mountain 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Mountain 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2906 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2906 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2906 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2906 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
טור I (√ of foll.
טור II
- 1. row, course of building-stones, in temple and in Solomon’s house 1 K 6:36; 7:12; forming enclosures in corner of court Ez 46:23a; of beams 6:36; 7:12, v. also 7:4 (Th Klo, v. שֶׁקֶף, שְׁקֻפִים); of pillars 7:2, 3. e.g. 1 Kings 6:36
- 2. row of jewels, on high priest’s breast-piece Ex 28:17(×3), 18, 19, 20; 39:10(×3), 11, 12, 13 (all P); of pomegranates on capitals of pillars in temple 1 K 7:20, 42 2 Ch 4:13, so also prob. 1 K 7:18, v. Th Klo, after 𝔊; of knops round the molten sea 7:24, cf. 2 Ch 4:3 (oxen הַבָּקָר, erron. for הַפְּקָעִים 1 K 7:24). e.g. Exodus 28:17
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. (√ of foll.; cf. Arabic طَارَ go or hover about, approach, طَوْرٌ limit, border).
II. n.m. Ex 28:17 row—abs. ט׳ Ex 28:17 + 9 times; cstr. id. 28:17 + 3 times; pl. טוּרִים 28:17 + 7 times; טֻרִים 1 K 7:20; cstr. טוּרֵי Ex 39:10 + 2 times;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צור (tsûwr) (H6697) — rock.
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.
טוּר I
- Pa. טַיֵּיר (cmp. תּוּר) to espy, to augur. Targ. Y. Gen. XLIV, 8; 15 (h. text נחש).
- (denom. of טַיָּיר) to consult divination. Ib. XXX, 27.
טוּר II
- (preced., cmp. b. h. צוּר) mount, mountain. Targ. O. Ex. III, 12 (Y. טוורא). Targ. Y. Gen. XXIII, 2; a. fr.—Ḥull. 7ᵇ, v. גְּבַהּ. Sabb. 152ᵃ ט׳תלג a mountain of snow (my head is white). Gen. R. s. 32, v. בְּרַךְ; a. fr.—Pl. טוּרִין, טוּרַיָּא, טוּרֵי, טַוְו׳. Targ. Job. IX, 5. Targ. Deut. XI, 11; a. fr.—Gen. R. l. c. אי מט׳ רמיא if it belongs among the high mountains; a. e.—[Sabb. 98ᵇ כי טירין, v. טָרִיז.]—טור מלכא (h. הר המלך) King’s Mountain, ט׳ שמעון Mount Simeon. Gitt. 55ᵇ. Y. Taan. IV, 69ᵃ; Lam. R. to II, 2 (v. Neub. Géogr. p. 41; p. 267).—ט׳ פרזלא Iron Mount. Targ. Y. Num. XXXIV, 3.—For other compounds, v. respective determinants.
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H2906 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| לְ/ט֥וּר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 2:35 | 1 |
| מִ/טּוּרָ/א֩ | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 2:45 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2906, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
