שׁוּר shûwr — properly, to turn, i.e. travel about (as a harlot or a merchant)
Translated in the KJV as go, singular See also H7891.
a primitive root; properly, to turn, i.e. travel about (as a harlot or a merchant).
shûwr in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 1Participle (active) 1
And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›