Strong's #218: 'Uwr (pronounced oor)

the same as 217; Ur, a place in Chaldaea; also an Israelite:--Ur.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'ûr

Ur = "flame"

1) city in southern Babylonia, city of the Chaldeans, centre of moon worship, home of Abraham' s father, Terah, and departure point for the Abraham' s migration to Mesopotamia and Canaan

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: the same as H217

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Genesis 11:28: "his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees."
Genesis 11:31: "wife; and they went forth with them from Ur them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land"
Genesis 15:7: "am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur thee out of Ur to give thee"
1 Chronicles 11:35: "the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,"
Nehemiah 9:7: "didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name"