שׂוּר sûwr — to saw

pronounced soor · Strong's H7787 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as cut.

a primitive root (identical with H7786 through the idea of reducing to pieces; compare H4883); to saw.

sûwr in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 1×

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

Wayyiqtol 1

וַיָּ֨שַׂר 1Chr 20:3 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. (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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