תְּמוּרָה
exchange
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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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).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where H8545 appears in the Absolute state, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Ruth 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.
The Hebrew noun תמורה centers on the idea of “exchange.” Job dominates its distribution — 3 of 6 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 6 verses — uncommon. Its earliest occurrence is Leviticus 27:10. Sharing its root, it stands alongside מור and מורה. Dig into 6-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8545 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 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 6 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 67%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 33%
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: Exchange 2×
- American Standard Version: Both it and that for which it is changed 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Substitute 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Substitute 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8545 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 H8545 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 H8545 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8545 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- that which is exchanged, exchange, substitute, recompense
Word origin
תְּמוּרָה n.f. exchange, recompense
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מור (mûwr) (H4171) — to change.
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.
תְּמוּרָה
- exchange, substitution. Snh. 22ᵃ לכל יש ת׳ there is a substitute for every thing (every loss can be retrieved), except for the wife of one’s youth. Ned. 20ᵇ בני ת׳ children begotten in exchange, e.g. if a man has two wives, and has connection with one mistaking her for the other. Pesik. R. s. 40 תְּמוּרָתוֹ של שם (not תא׳) a substitute of Shem (as priest).—Esp. exchange of one sacrificial animal for another (Lev. XXVII, 10), that for which an animal is exchanged. Tem. I, 1 אף ת׳ בבית וכ׳ so the change is valid only when made on the owner’s premises. Ib. 2 (ref. to Lev. l. c.) מה הוא מיוחד אף תְּמוּרָתוֹ מיוחדת as ‘it’ refers to one, so its exchange can be only one. Ib. II, 3 ואין ת׳ עושה ת׳ that for which it is exchanged cannot effect another exchange (does not affect the status of another animal exchanged for it). Ib. I, 5 הולד עושה ת׳ the animal’s child (born after the mother was dedicated) makes exchange (affects the status of one exchanged for it). Bekh. 15ᵇ תְּמוּרַת בעלי מומין that which is exchanged for blemished animals. Ib. 61ᵃ טעות מעשר ת׳ הויא a mistake in counting the tenth animal for tithes is an exchange, i.e. the animal marked as the tenth by mistake is sacred. Ib. תמורת מעשר מתה that which has been marked as the tenth by mistake must be put to death (cannot be used); a. fr.—Pl. תְּמוּרוֹת. Tem. III, 1 אלו … ותְמוּרוֹתֵיהֶן כיוצא בהן these are the sacred animals whose embryos and whose exchanges are of the same sacred character as themselves. Esth. R. to I, 1 (expl. בני אמוריא) ת׳ של אבותיהן the exchanges (hostages) of their fathers, v. עָרַב I; a. fr.—T’murah, name of a treatise, of the Order of Ḳodashim, of Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmud Babli. e.g. Leviticus 27:10
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 6 distinct written forms H8545 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/תְּמוּרָה֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ruth 4:7 | 1 |
| וּ/תְמ֖וּרָתָ֣/הּ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Job 28:17 | 1 |
| וּ/תְמוּרָת֖/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 27:10 | 1 |
| וּ/תְמוּרָת֛/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 27:33 | 1 |
| תְמוּרָתֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Job 15:31 | 1 |
| תְּ֝מוּרָת֗/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Job 20:18 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8545, 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
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 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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