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זוּר zûwr — to turn aside (especially for lodging)

pronounced zoor · Strong's H2114 · 7 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 3 stems: Qal (Pa'al), Niph'al, Hoph'al

Translated in the KJV as another (man, place), fanner, go away, strange(-r, thing, woman).

a primitive root; to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery.

zûwr in each stem

Qal (Pa'al)

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

Perfect (qatal) 4

זָ֥רוּ Job 19:13 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. (KJV)

זָ֣רָה Job 19:17 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person feminine singular

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body. (KJV)

זֹ֣רוּ Ps 58:4 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; (KJV)

Niph'al

Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them

Perfect (qatal) 2

נָזֹ֥רוּ Isa 1:4 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. (KJV)

נָזֹ֨רוּ֙ Ezek 14:5 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person common plural

That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. (KJV)

Hoph'al

Causative · passive — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject has it done to them

Participle (passive) 1

מ֭וּזָר Ps 69:9 Participle (passive), masculine singular

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. (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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