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דּוּר dûwr — to reside

pronounced dure · Strong's H1753 · 13 occurrences in the Aramaic Bible · 1 stem: Pe'al

Translated in the KJV as dwell.

(Aramaic) corresponding to H1752; to reside.

dûwr in each stem

Pe'al 13×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Participle (active) 10Imperfect (yiqtol) 3

דארין Dan 2:38 Participle (active), masculine plural

And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. (KJV)

דארין Dan 3:31 Participle (active), masculine plural
ידרון Dan 4:9 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural

O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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