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Strong's #7789: shuwr (pronounced shoor)

a primitive root (identical with 7788 through the idea of going round for inspection); to spy out, i.e. (generally) survey, (for evil) lurk for, (for good) care for:--behold, lay wait, look, observe, perceive, regard, see.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shûr

1) to see, behold, observe, regard

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to behold, observe

1a2) to regard

1a3) to watch, watch (stealthily), lie in wait

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [identical with H7788 through the idea of going round for inspection]



Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

Numbers 23:9: "from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people"
Numbers 24:17: "I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star"
Job 7:8: "The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not."
Job 17:15: "my hope? as for my hope, who shall see"
Job 20:9: "neither shall his place any more behold"
Job 24:15: "saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face."
Job 33:14: "speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not."
Job 33:27: " He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited"
Job 34:29: "and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man"
Job 35:5: "Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than"
Job 35:13: "vanity, neither will the Almighty regard"
Job 35:14: "Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust"
Job 36:24: "his work, which men behold."
Song of Solomon 4:8: "me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top"
Jeremiah 5:26: "among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap,"
Hosea 13:7: "as a leopard by the way will I observe"
Hosea 14:8: "with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From"









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