קוּר
thread
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6980 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.
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 59:5 וְ/קוּרֵ֥י conj + n c mp cs They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
- Isaiah 59:6 קֽוּרֵי/הֶם֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
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.
קור (qûwr) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “thread.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Isaiah dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. It first appears in Isaiah 59:5. Related forms include קור, מקור and קורה. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6980 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
- Isaiah 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.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 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).
- King James Version: Web 1×, Webs 1×
- American Standard Version: 's web 1×, Webs 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cobwebs 1×, Web 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: And 1×, Webs 1×, Webs of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6980 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6980 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6980 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6980 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- thread, film, web
Word origin
[ קוּר ] n.m. thread, film;—pl. cstr. Is 59:5
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קור (qûwr) (H6979) — to dig.
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.
קור
- , Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. V, 10, v. קוֹד
קוֹר
- , Pol. קוֹרֵר, Ithpol. אִתְקוֹרָר, v. קְרַר I, II.
קוֹר I
- (נָקַר I; cmp. מוֹקְרָא II) [marrow,] the white heart or terminal bud of a palm (cabbage tree) used as food. Ukts. III, 7 הק׳ הרי הוא כעץ וכ׳ ḳor is like wood in every respect (not susceptible of levitical uncleanness), but may be bought for tithe-money (being considered as food); Tosef. ib. III, 10; Y. Shebi. IV, end, 35ᶜ; Erub. 28ᵇ. Tosef. Shebi. III, 21; a. e.
קוֹר II
- cold, cold season. B. Mets. 106ᵇ (ref. to Gen. VIII, 22) חצי שבט … ק׳ half of Shebat, the whole of the month of Adar, and half of Nisan form the season of Ḳor; Gen. R. s. 34. e.g. Genesis 8:22
קְרַר
- to cause to spring forth, give forth. Y. Shek. V, 48ᵈ הוה ידע … מְקוֹרֵר וכ׳ he knew what rock gives forth water (when bored at), and in what rock there is dry heat.
קְרַר ²
- to cool. Sabb. 8ᵇ דעבידי אינשי לקָרוּרֵי נפשייהו when people are wont to cool themselves (by walking in pools), v. רָקָק.
- same. Pes. 76ᵃ אַקּוּרי קא מֵיקַר ליה it cools the juice off; a. e.
- , Ithpol. אִתְקוֹרָר to be cooled off, cool one’s self. Targ. Y. Ex. II, 5 לאִתְקַרְרָא. Targ. Y. II ib. VII, 15 למַתְקוֹרְרָה על מיא (ed. Vien. למתקודרה עלמיא, corr. acc.).
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 H6980 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/קוּרֵ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 59:5 | 1 |
| קֽוּרֵי/הֶם֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 59:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6980, 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. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). 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.
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