סוּר
to turn aside
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘turn aside’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘cause to’
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
- Polel
- A stem of hollow/geminate roots functioning like the Piel — intensive active.
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms 62 distinct
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 31 times (10%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 20 times (7%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 19 times (6%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 18 times (6%)
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 15 times (5%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 14 times (5%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 14 times (5%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 12 times (4%)
+54 more forms (158 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 301 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 2 of 2 — showing verses 201–283 of 283 distinct verses where H5493 appears, across 30 books. 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.
Psalms 13 verses
Proverbs 17 verses
- Proverbs 3:7 וְ/ס֣וּר conj + Qal impv 2ms Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
- Proverbs 4:24 הָסֵ֣ר Hiphil impv 2ms Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
- Proverbs 4:27 הָסֵ֖ר Hiphil impv 2ms Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
- Proverbs 5:7 תָּ֝ס֗וּרוּ Qal juss 2mp Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.
- Proverbs 9:4 יָסֻ֣ר Qal juss 3ms "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
- Proverbs 9:16 יָסֻ֣ר Qal juss 3ms "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
- Proverbs 11:22 וְ/סָ֣רַת conj + Qal ptcp.act fs cs Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, Is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
- Proverbs 13:14 לָ֝/ס֗וּר prep + Qal inf.cs The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, To turn from the snares of death.
- Proverbs 13:19 ס֣וּר Qal inf.cs Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, But fools detest turning from evil.
- Proverbs 14:16 וְ/סָ֣ר conj + Qal ptcp.act ms A wise man fears, and shuns evil, But the fool is hotheaded and reckless.
- Proverbs 14:27 לָ֝/ס֗וּר prep + Qal inf.cs The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, Turning people from the snares of death.
- Proverbs 15:24 ס֝֗וּר Qal inf.cs The path of life leads upward for the wise, To keep him from going downward to Sheol.
- Proverbs 16:6 ס֣וּר Qal inf.cs By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
- Proverbs 16:17 ס֣וּר Qal inf.cs The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
- Proverbs 22:6 יָס֥וּר Qal impf 3ms Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
- Proverbs 27:22 תָס֥וּר Qal impf 3fs Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, Yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
- Proverbs 28:9 מֵסִ֣יר Hiphil ptcp.act ms He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Isaiah 23 verses
- Isaiah 1:16 הָסִ֛ירוּ Hiphil impv 2mp Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; Cease to do evil.
- Isaiah 1:25 וְ/אָסִ֖ירָה conj + Hiphil impf 1cs And I will turn my hand on you, Thoroughly purge away your dross, And will take away all your tin.
- Isaiah 3:1 מֵסִ֤יר Hiphil ptcp.act ms For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, The whole supply of bread, And the whole supply of water;
- Isaiah 3:18 יָסִ֣יר Hiphil impf 3ms In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,
- Isaiah 5:5 הָסֵ֤ר Hiphil inf.abs Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
- Isaiah 5:23 יָסִ֥ירוּ Hiphil impf 3mp Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, But deny justice for the innocent!
- Isaiah 6:7 וְ/סָ֣ר conj + Qal wpf 3ms He touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven."
- Isaiah 7:17 סוּר Qal inf.cs Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
- Isaiah 10:13 וְ/אָסִ֣יר conj + Hiphil impf 1cs For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit [on thrones]:
- Isaiah 10:27 יָס֤וּר Qal impf 3ms It shall happen in that day, that his burden shall depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.
- Isaiah 11:13 וְ/סָ֨רָה֙ conj + Qal wpf 3fs The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and those who vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
- Isaiah 14:25 וְ/סָ֤ר יָסֽוּר conj + Qal wpf 3ms Qal impf 3ms that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder.
- Isaiah 17:1 מוּסָ֣ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
- Isaiah 18:5 הֵסִ֥יר Hiphil pf 3ms For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.
- Isaiah 25:8 יָסִיר֙ Hiphil impf 3ms He has swallowed up death forever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it.
- Isaiah 27:9 הָסִ֣ר Hiphil inf.cs Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
- Isaiah 30:11 ס֚וּרוּ Qal impv 2mp get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."
- Isaiah 31:2 הֵסִ֑יר Hiphil pf 3ms Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.
- Isaiah 36:7 הֵסִ֤יר Hiphil pf 3ms But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God: isn't that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?
- Isaiah 49:21 וְ/סוּרָ֗ה conj + Adjective Adjective fs Then shall you say in your heart, Who has conceived these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?
- Isaiah 52:11 ס֤וּרוּ ס֨וּרוּ֙ Qal impv 2mp Qal impv 2mp Depart you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.
- Isaiah 58:9 תָּסִ֤יר Hiphil impf 2ms Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;
- Isaiah 59:15 וְ/סָ֥ר conj + Qal ptcp.act ms Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice.
Jeremiah 10 verses
- Jeremiah 4:1 תָּסִ֧יר Hiphil impf 2ms If you will return, Israel, says Yahweh, if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;
- Jeremiah 4:4 וְ/הָסִ֨רוּ֙ conj + Hiphil impv 2mp Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
- Jeremiah 5:10 הָסִ֨ירוּ֙ Hiphil impv 2mp Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.
- Jeremiah 5:23 סָ֖רוּ Qal pf 3cp But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
- Jeremiah 6:28 סָרֵ֣י Qal ptcp.act ms cs They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
- Jeremiah 15:5 יָס֔וּר Qal impf 3ms For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare?
- Jeremiah 17:5 יָס֥וּר Qal impf 3ms Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 17:13 וְ/סוּרַ/י֙ conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
- Jeremiah 32:31 לַ/הֲסִירָ֖/הּ prep + Hiphil inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
- Jeremiah 32:40 ס֥וּר Qal inf.cs and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
Lamentations 2 verses
- Lamentations 3:11 סוֹרֵ֛ר Polel pf 3ms He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
- Lamentations 4:15 ס֣וּרוּ ס֤וּרוּ ס֨וּרוּ֙ Qal impv 2mp Qal impv 2mp Qal impv 2mp Depart you, they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [here].
Ezekiel 10 verses
- Ezekiel 6:9 סָר֙ Qal pf 3ms Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with they eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
- Ezekiel 11:18 וְ/הֵסִ֜ירוּ conj + Hiphil wpf 3cp They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it and all the abominations of it from there.
- Ezekiel 11:19 וַ/הֲסִ֨רֹתִ֜י conj + Hiphil wpf 1cs I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
- Ezekiel 16:42 וְ/סָ֥רָה conj + Qal wpf 3fs So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
- Ezekiel 16:50 וָ/אָסִ֥יר conj + Hiphil wimpf 1cs They were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].
- Ezekiel 21:26 הָסִיר֙ Hiphil impv 2ms thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
- Ezekiel 23:25 יָסִ֔ירוּ Hiphil impf 3mp I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.
- Ezekiel 26:16 וְ/הֵסִ֨ירוּ֙ conj + Hiphil wpf 3cp Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.
- Ezekiel 36:26 וַ/הֲסִ֨רֹתִ֜י conj + Hiphil wpf 1cs A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
- Ezekiel 45:9 הָסִ֔ירוּ Hiphil impv 2mp Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
Daniel 4 verses
- Daniel 9:5 וְ/ס֥וֹר conj + Qal inf.abs we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;
- Daniel 9:11 וְ/ס֕וֹר conj + Qal inf.abs Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore has the curse been poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.
- Daniel 11:31 וְ/הֵסִ֣ירוּ conj + Hiphil wpf 3cp Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual [burnt offering], and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.
- Daniel 12:11 הוּסַ֣ר Hophal pf 3ms From the time that the continual [burnt offering] shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days.
Hosea 5 verses
- Hosea 2:2 וְ/תָסֵ֤ר conj + Hiphil juss 3fs Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, Neither am I her husband; And let her put away her prostitution from her face, And her adulteries from between her breasts;
- Hosea 2:17 וַ/הֲסִרֹתִ֛י conj + Hiphil wpf 1cs For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, And they will no more be mentioned by their name.
- Hosea 4:18 סָ֖ר Qal pf 3ms Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
- Hosea 7:14 יָס֥וּרוּ Qal impf 3mp They haven't cried to me with their heart, But they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
- Hosea 9:12 בְּ/שׂוּרִ֥/י prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Amos 2 verses
Zephaniah 2 verses
- Zephaniah 3:11 אָסִ֣יר Hiphil impf 1cs In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.
- Zephaniah 3:15 הֵסִ֤יר Hiphil pf 3ms Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is in the midst of you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
Zechariah 3 verses
- Zechariah 3:4 הָסִ֛ירוּ Hiphil impv 2mp He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, "Take the filthy garments off of him." To him he said, "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing."
- Zechariah 9:7 וַ/הֲסִרֹתִ֨י conj + Hiphil pf 1cs I will take away his blood out of his mouth, And his abominations from between his teeth; And he also will be a remnant for our God; And he will be as a chieftain in Judah, And Ekron as a Jebusite.
- Zechariah 10:11 יָסֽוּר Qal impf 3ms He will pass through the sea of affliction, And will strike the waves in the sea, And all the depths of the Nile will dry up; And the pride of Assyria will be brought down, And the scepter of Egypt will depart.
Malachi 2 verses
- Malachi 2:8 סַרְתֶּ֣ם Qal pf 2mp But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Hosts.
- Malachi 3:7 סַרְתֶּ֤ם Qal pf 2mp From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says Yahweh of Hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'
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.
The Hebrew verb סור centers on the idea of “to turn aside.” Where the King James Version says “depart,” newer translations reach for “turn away” (Berean Standard Bible) and “turn aside” (unfoldingWord Literal Text); the renderings breakdown has the detail. It appears 283 verses across 30 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its common vocabulary. Debuting at Genesis 8:13, it then recurs through the corpus. Read the stem: it spans 4 stems, including Qal and Hiphil. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5493 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 →
- 283
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 283 distinct verses.
- 30 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 30 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #163
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 163 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 283 occurrences in the concordance →
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 283 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 149 verses · 53%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 81 verses · 29%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 53 verses · 19%
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 4 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†: Depart 23×, Departed 9×, He departed 9×
- American Standard Version†: Depart 17×, Remove 9×, He departed 8×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Turn away 21×, Removed 19×, Turn aside 15×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Turn aside 32×, Remove 27×, Turn away 27×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5493 across 308† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 136 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5493 across 306† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 139 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5493 across 294† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 120 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5493 across 396† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 89 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
11 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Hophal (the passive of Hiphil) and one or more reduplicated stems (the Pōlēl/Pilpēl type), which for hollow or geminate roots behave much like Piel — often intensive or iterative.
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 11 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.
סור I and (Ho 9
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. סָר Ex 3:4 +; 3 fs. סָ֫רָה 1 S 16:14 +; 1 s. סָ֑רְתִּי ψ 119:102; 3 pl. סָרוּ Dt 9:12 +; 2 mpl. סַרְתֶּם v 16 +, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יָסוּר Gn 49:10 +, וַיָּ֫סַר Ju 4:18 +; 3 fs. תָּסוּר 1 S 6:3 +; 1 s. cohort. אָסֻ֫רָה Ex 3:3; 3 mpl. יָסֻ֫רוּ Ex 25:15 +, etc.; Imv. ms. סוּר 2 S 2:22 +, etc.; Inf. abs. סוֹר Dn 9:5, סֹר v 11; cstr. סוּר Is 7:17 +; sf. שׂוּרִי Ho 9:12 (Ges§ 6 k Now); Pt. סָר Jb 1:1 +; f. cstr. סָרַת Pr 11:22; mpl. cstr. סָרֵי Je 6:28 (or from סרר, or שָׂר); pass. f. סוּרָה Is 49:21, c. intrans. meaning (Ges§ 50 f Köii. 1, 137), pl. sf. סוּרַי Je 17:13 Qr; and cstr. סוּרֵי 2:21;— e.g. Exodus 3:4
- 1. turn aside, out of one’s course 1 S 6:12 Dt 2:27, from following, מֵאַחֲרֵי pers. 2 S 2:21, 22, abs. v 23, from attacking, מֵעַל 2 Ch 20:10; turn in unto (for shelter, refuge, etc.), c. אֶל־, Gn 19:2, 3 (J) Ju 4:18(×3); 19:11, 12 2 K 4:11, c. לְ Ju 20:8, c. שָׁם 18:3; 19:15, שָׁ֫מָה 18:15 2 K 4:8 (+ inf.), v 10; c. הֵ֫נָּה Pr 9:4, 16 (in fig.); for purpose implied Ex 3:3 (J) Ru 4:1(×2), or expr. by inf. Ex 3:4 (J) Ju 14:8 Je 15:5 (in fig.); especially fig. turn aside from right path, from י׳, his commands, etc., usually c. מִן Ex 32:8 (J) Ju 2:17 Dt 9:12 + 7 times D, Pr 13:14 + 5 times Pr, + 10 times elsewhere, + 2 Ch 8:15 (ins. מִן); c. מֵאַחֲרֵי 1 S 12:20 + 4 times; c. מֵעַל Je 32:40 Ez 6:9; מִן + יָמִין etc. Dt 5:29; 17:11 2 K 22:2 = 2 Ch 34:2; abs. (sometimes = revolt) ψ 14:3 Je 5:23 Dt 11:16; 17:17 (subj. לֵבָב), וְסוּרַי Je 17:13 Qr (> יסורי Kt) read prob. וְסוּרֶיךָ those revolting from thee (Ew Gie); סוּרֵי הַגֶּפֶן נָכְרִיָּה Je 2:21 degenerate (shoots) of the foreign vine (fig.); סָרַת טַעַם Pr 11:22 a woman turning aside as to discretion, shewing lack of it; also from wrong path, sins (of Jerob.), etc., c. מִן 2 K 3:3; 14:24 + 7 times 2 K; c. מֵעַל 2 K 10:31; 15:18; c. מֵאַחֲרֵי 2 K 10:29; †סָר מֵרָע (pt.) Jb 1:1, 8; 2:3 also Is 59:15; סוּר מֵרָע (inf. and imv.) Jb 28:28 Pr 3:7; 13:19; 16:6, 17 ψ 34:15; 37:27. e.g. 1 Samuel 6:12
- 2. depart, usually c. מִן, of frogs Ex 8:7, flies v 25 (both J), sword 2 S 12:10; sceptre from Judah Gn 49:10 (poem in J): י׳’s hand 1 S 6:3, his kindness 2 S 7:15 (MT, but read אָסִיר 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 ‖ 1 Ch 17:13 Th We Dr Klo Bu Kit HPS), his wrath Ez 16:42 (but del. Co Siegf Toy), depart from way = get out of the way, cease to obstruct Is 30:11, etc.; c. מִתּוֹךְ 1 S 15:6(×2); c. מֵעַל Is 7:17 Ju 16:19 Nu 12:10, etc.; of י׳ departing, מִן pers., Ho 9:12, מֵעַל Ju 16:20 1 S 28:16, מֵעִם 1 S 18:12; God, c. מִן Jb 21:14; 22:17, c. מֵעַל 1 S 28:15; רוּחַ י׳, c. מֵעִם 1 S 16:14; evil spirit, c. מֵעַל v 23; abs. depart [from Babyl.] Is 52:11(×2); = avoid contact La 4:15(×3); of wicked Jb 15:30 he shall not depart out of (מִנִּי) darkness, i.e. shall not avoid it, escape it; pt. pass. made to depart, thrust away, of Isr. under fig. of wife Is 49:21 (> act., according to BaNB § 124 c.). e.g. Exodus 8:7
- 3. of lifeless things = be removed, oppressor’s yoke, c. מֵעַל Is 14:25 cf. v 25 10:27; staves from (מִן) ark Ex 25:15; abs. iniquity Is 6:7; especially of בָּמוֹת 1 K 15:14; 22:44 2 K 12:4; 14:4; 15:4, 35 2 Ch 15:17; 20:33. e.g. Isaiah 14:25
- 4. = come to an end, Am 6:7 Is 11:13.—For סָר אֶל־ 1 S 22:14 read שַׂר עַל־ 𝔊 Th Dr Klo Bu Kit Löhr HPS; in 15:32 Th HPS del. סָר (after 𝔊 𝔙 𝔖) as dittogr.; סָר סָבְאָם Ho 4:18 v. סֹבֶא; Ho 7:14 read יָסוֹ֫רוּ for יָס֫וּרוּ (√ סרר q.v.); Je 6:28, it is uncertain whether (סוֹרְרִים) סָרֵי belongs here, revolters among the rebellious, or sub סרר, or even = שָׂרֵי princes, chiefs (cf. 1 S 22:14). e.g. Amos 6:7
Poʿlel
- Pf. 3 ms. דְּרָכַי סוֹרֵר La 3:11 he turned aside my ways (my steps). e.g. Lamentations 3:11
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 ms. הֵסִיר 2 K 18:4 +; 2 ms. וַהֲסִרֹ֫תָ consec. (Dr§ 110 (5) Obs.) 1 K 2:31; 1 s. הֲסִירֹ֫תִי 2 K 23:27 +, וַהֲסִרֹתִ֫י 1 S 17:46 +; 3 pl. הֵסִ֫ירוּ 2 Ch 30:14, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יָסִיר Is 3:18 +, juss. יָסֵר Ex 8:4 +, וַיָּ֫סַר Gn 8:13 +; sf. וַיְסִרֵהוּ 1 S 18:13, וַיְסִרֶהָ 1 K 15:13, יְסִירֶנָּה Lv 3:4 +; 3 mpl. יָסִ֫ירוּ Is 5:23 +, etc.; Imv. ms. הָסֵר 1 K 20:24 +, הָסִיר Ez 21:31 (read הָסֵיר, הָסֵר); fs. הָסִ֫ירִי 1 S 1:14, etc.; Inf. abs. הָסֵר Gn 30:32 +; cstr. הָסִיר 2 K 6:32 +, etc.; Pt. מֵסִיר Is 3:1 + 3 times;— e.g. 2 Kings 18:4
- 1. cause to (turn aside,) depart, common word for remove, take away: c. מִן, Ex 8:4, 27; 33:23 (all J), 23:25 (E) Dt 7:15 1 S 28:3 Jos 7:13 (J) Ju 10:16 Is 3:1 ψ 18:23 (+ ‖ 2 S 22:23, read אָסִיר מִמֶּנִּי De Hup-Now HPS); shoulder from burden ψ 81:7; מֵסִיר אָזְנוֹ מִשְּׁמֹעַ Pr 28:9; + often, + Jb 33:17 (ins. מִן 𝔊 Ew Di De Hi Bu al.); c. מֵעַל, take off ring Gn 41:42 (E) Est 3:10, also 8:2 (abs.); garments Gn 38:14, 19 (J) Dt 21:13 Zc 3:4 1 S 17:39 (armour), also Ex 34:34 (P; abs.) and Ez 26:16 (Co ins. מֵעַל); take off head, מֵעַל 1 S 17:46, abs. 2 S 4:7; 16:9 2 K 6:32; c. מֵעַל also often fig. (from upon = from resting on, or burdening), plagues Ex 8:4; 10:17 (J), cf. Nu 21:7 (E), also 1 S 1:14 Am 5:23 1 K 2:31; reproach 1 S 17:26 Is 25:8; c. מֵעִם = from one’s presence 1 S 18:13, also of י׳ removing his kindness 1 Ch 16:13 + ‖ 2 S 7:15 (v. Qal 2); c. מֵעַל פָּנָיו, of י׳ removing Isr. 2 K 17:18, 23; 23:27; 24:3 Je 32:31; abs. 2 K 23:27; often abs., Gn 8:13 Noah removed the covering; remove = depose c. מִן 1 K 15:13 = 2 Ch 15:16 (v. מִן 7 b (b)), abs. 2 Ch 36:3, cf. Ju 9:29 Jb 34:20; remove בָּמוֹת, etc., 2 K 18:4, v 22 = Is 36:7 = 2 Ch 32:12, 2 K 23:19 2 Ch 30:14; 14:2, cf. 14:4; 17:5 (both c. מִן); = put away strange gods, etc., Gn 35:2 Jos 24:14, 23 (all E), 1 S 7:4, c. מִתּוֹךְ v 3 Is 58:9; once c. לְ, מֵסִיר שָׂפָה לְנֶאֱמָנִים Jb 12:20. e.g. Exodus 8:4
- 2. rarer uses are: put aside = leave undone Jos 11:15 (D); retract words Is 31:2 (of י׳); reject prayer ψ 66:20; abolish sacrifice Dn 11:31; turn one away מֵאַחֲרֵי, i.e. from following Dt 7:4; c. אֶל־ pers., remove the ark unto 2 S 6:10 = 1 Ch 13:13. e.g. Joshua 11:15
Hophal
- Pf. 3 ms. הוּסַר Lv 4:31 Dn 12:11; Impf. 3 ms. יוּסַר Lv 4:35; Pt. מוּסָר Is 17:1; pl. מוּסָרִים 1 S 21:7 (but final ם prob. dittogr. before מ We Dr Klo Kit HPS);—be taken away, removed: c. מִן Lv 4:35, מֵעַל v 31, מִלִּפְנֵי י׳ 1 S 21:7; מוּסָר מֵעִיר Is 17:1 Damascus is removed from being a city; abs. be abolished Dn 12:11 (cf. 11:31 Hiph.). e.g. Leviticus 4:31
סור II verb. properly Pt. of סור q.v.
סור III of a temple-gate
סור IV saw (‖ form of נָשַׂר
Qal
- Impf. 3 ms. וַיָּשַׂר 1 Ch 20:3 (but v. שׂים 1 a).—Ho 9:12 v. סור; Ju 9:22; Ho 8:4 v. שׂרר; 12:5 v. שׂרה. e.g. 1 Chronicles 20:3
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. and (Ho 9:12) [שׂוּר]300 vb. turn aside (NH Hiph. cause to turn aside, or apostatize; TelAm. sûru, n. rebel WklGloss.);—
II. adj.verb. properly Pt. of סור q.v.
III. n.pr. of a temple-gate;—שַׁעַר ס׳ 2 K 11:6 (> ‖ 2 Ch 23:5 שַׁעַר הַיְסוֹד, v. יְסוֹד), but del. ver. as gloss WeBleek’s Einl. 4:258 KmpKau Benz.
I. vb. saw (‖ form of נָשַׂר; denom. from מַשּׂוֹר?);—
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Origin: a primitive root
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.
סוּר I
- (b. h.)
- 1. to go around; to turn; with ל to turn to, follow; with מן, מ־, to turn away; in gen. [to turn from the right path,] to go astray; to degenerate. Snh. 21ᵇ (ref. to Deut. XVII, 17) אני ארבה ולא אָסוּר I (Solomon) will take many wives and yet not go astray. Ber. 19ᵇ, a. fr. לאו דלא תָסוּר the prohibition inplied in the words, ‘thou shalt not deviate’ (from the decisions of the courts, the interpretations of the Rabbis, Deut. XVII, 11); a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 17:17
- 2. to pass away, cease. Num. R. s. 9 (ref. to Am. VI, 7) אותה שעה תָסוּר שמחת הסרוחים at that time shall the joy of the (corrupt) banqueters cease; a. e. e.g. Amos 6:7
- 1. to remove, take off. Num. R. s. 14 (play on סיר, Ps. LX, 10) והֵסַרְתִּי הצרעת מעליו and I removed the leprosy from him; שהסרתי אותו מן הטביעה whom I removed (saved) from drowning, v. טְבִיעָה I; Num. R. s. 12 הָסֵר הטומאה וכ׳ remove the uncleanness out of thy house; a. e. e.g. Psalms 60:10
- 2. to cause to deviate, to corrupt. Snh. II, 4 (ref. to Deut. XVII, 17) ובלבד שלא יהו מְסִירוֹת את לבו provided they (the wives) do not corrupt his heart; אפי׳ אחת ומְסִירָה וכ׳ even one wife, if she might corrupt his heart, he must not marry. Kidd. 68ᵇ (ref. to Deut. VII, 4) לרבות כל המְסִירִים this is to intimate the extension of the prohibition of intermarriage to all nations that might lead astray; Yeb. 23ᵃ; Ab. Zar. 36ᵇ המְסִירוֹת. e.g. Deuteronomy 17:17
- to be removed. Macc. 5ᵃ (ref. to סרה Deut. XIX, 16) עד שתּוּסַר גופה של עדות Ar. s. v. זמם (ed. שתסרה) until the testimony itself has been removed (an alibi has been proved). e.g. Deuteronomy 19:16
סוּר
- 1. to turn, esp. ס׳ סכינא (v. Ḥull. 17ᵇ, quot. s. v. טוּפְרָא) to turn the slaughtering knife on all sides, to examine. Erub. 63ᵃ רבינא סַר סכינא וכ׳ R. examined the slaughterer’s knife (assumed the rabbinical function of superintending the slaughtering) in Babylonia. Ḥull. 18ᵃ דלא סר וכ׳ who failed to examine his knife before an authorised scholar.
- 2. to go around, visit, superintend, esp. ס׳ ניכסיה (or ארעיה) to superintend one’s estate, examine, watch laborers &c.—Part. סָיֵיר. Ib. 105ᵃ מאן דסייר ניכסיה וכ׳ (Ar. סָאֵיר) he who goes around examining his property every day. Ib. וכ׳ אבא הוה ס׳ … ואנא לא סָיִירְנָא my father used to examine his estate twice a day, but I do it only once a day.
- same. B. Mets. 76ᵇ, sq. [read:] סַיְּירָהּ לארעיה וכ׳ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) he visited his fields &c. Gitt. 38ᵇ דמְסַיְּירֵי וכ׳ Rashi (ed. דסָיְירֵי) those who examine their property on the Sabbath; a. e.—V. סְעַר I.
סוּר II
- (b. h.) pr. n. שער הס׳ the gate of Sur, name of a Temple gate. Y. Erub. V, 22ᶜ
*סָוַר
- (cmp. צבר, v. סַוָּאר) to pile, arrange.—Part. pass. סָווּר; f. סְווּרָה; pl. סְווּרוֹת. Tosef. B. Bath. III, 6 העצים … האבנים ס׳ וכ׳ ed. Zuck. (Var. סוררות, some ed. סוירות, corr. acc.) wood or stones piled up whether for his untilled field (for building) or for his fence; v. סָדַר a. צָבַר.
סוֹר
- (= סאור, v. סִיאוּר) fermentation, froth, leaven; trnsf. (cmp. שְׂאוֹר, עִיסָה a. חָמַץ) germ, original nature, character. Snh. 92ᵇ סו̇רו̇ his haughty nature; [oth. opin.: its (the kiln’s) froth], v. מָקַק a. מָרַק. Kidd. 82ᵃ כל שעסקיו סורו רע … he who has a business which brings him in contact with women, has bad leaven in him (or else he would not have chosen such a trade). Hor. 13ᵃ מפני שסוֹרָן רע because they (the mice) are of a mischievous nature. B. Mets. 59ᵇ the Torah cautions repeatedly against ill-treating the proselyte (גֵּר), מפני שסורו רע because his original character is bad (into which ill treatment might cause him to relapse). Kidd. 17ᵇ שמא יחזור לסורו lest he (the proselyte) relapse &c., v. קִילְקוּל. Gen. R. s. 70 היה חוזר לסורו he (Aquila) might have gone back to his evil ways (to heathenism); v. סִיאוּר. Gen. R. s. 74, end (expl. למקומו, Gen. XXXII, 1) לסורו to his evil manners (sensual pleasures). Cant. R. to II, 5; a. e.—Pl. סוֹרִים degenerate, bad people. Num. R. s. 3 אפי׳ סוֹרֵיהֶן וכ׳ even the bad among them are charitable; (Midr. Till. to Ps. XCII בּוֹרִים שבהם). e.g. Genesis 32:1
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Forms in the corpus
The 194 distinct written forms H5493 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 134 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 266 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 283 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
- Genesis 8:13
- Exodus 3:3
- Leviticus 1:16
- Numbers 12:10
- Deuteronomy 2:27
- Joshua 1:7
- Judges 2:17
- Ruth 4:1
- 1 Samuel 1:14
- 2 Samuel 2:21
- 1 Kings 2:31
- 2 Kings 3:2
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