תּוֹר
plait
also: circlet, turn fuller range ↓
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
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8448 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.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
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.
תור (tôwr) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “plait.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. It clusters heavily in 1 Chronicles, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It occurs only once, in 1 Chronicles 17:17. The lexical range runs to 2 senses — “plait” plus “circlet” and “turn”. 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 H8448 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
- 1 Chronicles 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: According to the estate 1×
- American Standard Version: According to the estate 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: not separately translated
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: According to the rank of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8448 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8448 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Does not render H8448 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 1 tagged occurrence).
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8448 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.
- circlet, plait, turn (of hair or gold)
- (CLBL) custom, manner, mode
Word origin
תּוֹר, תֹּר n.m. plait, turn
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תור (tôwr) (H8447) — plait.
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.
תּוּר I
- v. טוּר) [to go around; cmp. אָלַל,) to espy. Shebu. 47ᵇ (play on ות̇ר̇ג̇נ̇ו, Deut. I, 27) תַּ֗רְֹתֶּם וג̇ינ̇יתם באהלו וכ׳ you have espied (the land) and found fault with God’s tent; Num. R. s. 1620 תרתם גנות א"י you have espied the faults of the land of Israel; Tanḥ. Sh’laḥ 11. Y. Yoma I, 38ᵇ (play on האתרים, Num. XXI, 1) מת התייר הגדול שהיה תָר להם וכ׳ the great spy (Aaron) is dead who espied for them the road (of life); Y. Sot. I, end, 17ᶜ; Num. R. s. 1920. Lev. R. s. 15; Yalk. ib. 554 את מבקש לצאת לָתוּר פרנסתך thou desirest to go out and espy the means of thy sustenance; a. e. e.g. Deuteronomy 1:27
תּוּר II
- (contr. of תער, v. עוּר) to be awake.—V. תִּיר.
- to awaken. B. Kam. 117ᵇ תַּיְּירֵיה אוקמיה he waked him up (from the dead) and made him to stand (live).—[Gitt. 69ᵇ וניתייריה, read: וניתריה, v. תְּרֵי II.]
תּוֹר I
- v. תּוּר I)
- 1. turn, order. — Pl. תּוֹרִים. Cant. R. to I, 10 (ref. to בתורים, ib.) בשעה שקורין … בתוֹרֵיהֶן וכ׳ when they read the words of the Law in their due turn: the Passover laws on Passover &c.
- 2. string, twist. —Pl. as ab. Tosef. Sabb. VIII (IX), 31; Y. ib. VIII, 11ᵇ top; Bab. ib. 90ᵇ תּוֹרֵי דקל strings made of the fibrous bast of the palm, contrad. to צורי דקל, v. צוּר III.
תּוֹר II
- onomatop.) turtle-dove. Kinn. II, 5 האשה … חטאתה ת׳ וכ׳ if a woman brought a turtle-dove for her sin-offering, and a young pigeon for her burnt-offering; a. e.—Pl. תּוֹרִים, תּוֹרִין. Ib. אין מביאין ת׳ כנגד וכ׳ you must not offer turtle-doves in connection with young pigeons, nor young pigeons in connection with turtle-doves (but either the ones or the others). Ḥull. I, 5 כשר בת׳, v. יוֹנָה II. Ib. 22ᵇ; a. fr.
תּוֹר
- = h. שׁוֹר, ox. Targ. Ex. XXI, 28, sq. Targ. Lev. IV, 3; a. fr.—ת׳ בר aurochs (v. תּוֹרְבָּלָא). Targ. Ps. L, 10.—Pirké d’R. El. ch. XXVIII (ref. to וְתר̇, Gen. XV, 9) לא נאמר ת׳ זה בלשון … ת׳ זה השור וכ׳ this tor is not meant in its Biblical (Hebrew) sense (dove), but in its Chaldaic meaning: tor means the ox &c. Y. R. Hash. II, 58ᵇ top; Y. Snh. I, 18ᶜ bot., v. עַדְרָא; Bab. Snh. 18ᵇ. Nidd. 33ᵇ, v. רְמֵי. Lam. R. to I, 7 (prov.) נפל ת׳ סגין וכ׳ when the ox is felled, its butchers are many (when one is in distress, his enemies increase); נפל ת׳ תחדדון סכינוי (not תחדדן) when the ox is down, sharpen the knives for him; Sabb. 32ᵃ, v. חֲדַד. Ab. Zar. 16ᵃ בר ת׳ a young ox; a. fr.—ראש תור, v. רֹאשׁ.—Pl. תֹּרִין, תּוֹרַיָּא, תּוֹרֵי. Targ. Gen. XXXII, 6. Targ. I Chr. XXI, 23. Targ. Num. XXIX, 13. Targ. Y. Deut. XIV, 5 תורי בר, v. supra; a. fr.—B. Mets. 30ᵃ top; 73ᵃ; Ḥull. 84ᵇ, v. תַּיָּרָא.—Fem. תּוֹרְתָּא cow. Targ. Num. XIX, 2 (O. ed. Vien. תּוֹרְתָא; Y. תּוֹרָתָא, corr. acc.); a. fr.—Pl. תּוֹרָתָא, תּוֹרָן. Targ. I Sam. VI, 7. Targ. Job I, 14 Ms. (ed. תורייא); a. e. e.g. Genesis 15:9
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.
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Septuagint verse parallels
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