זוּרzûwr

זוּר: be a stranger

Pronunciation: zoor · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2114

Meanings

Qal

1. become estranged (Psalms 58:4; Job 19:13; Psalms 78:30)

2. as adjective strange, or as noun stranger

b. another, strange woman, harlot (Job 19:27; Proverbs 14:10; Proverbs 27:2)

c. foreigners (Hosea 7:9; Hosea 8:7; Isaiah 1:7)

d. strange incense (Exodus 30:9; Leviticus 10:1; Numbers 3:4)

Niph`al: be estranged (Isaiah 1:4; Ezekiel 14:5)

Hoph`al: estranged (Psalms 69:9)

זוּר: be loathsome (Job 19:17)

זָרָא: loathsome thing (Numbers 11:20)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 77 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 29:33 They alone may eat the meat and bread used for their purification in the ordination ceremony. No one else may eat them, for these things are set apart and holy.
  • Exodus 30:9 Do not offer any unholy incense on this altar, or any burnt offerings, grain offerings, or liquid offerings.
  • Exodus 30:33 Anyone who makes a blend like it or anoints someone other than a priest will be cut off from the community.’”
  • Leviticus 10:1 Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu put coals of fire in their incense burners and sprinkled incense over them. In this way, they disobeyed the Lord by burning before him the wrong kind of fire, different than he had commanded.
  • Leviticus 22:10 “No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offerings. Even guests and hired workers in a priest’s home are not allowed to eat them.
  • Leviticus 22:12 If a priest’s daughter marries someone outside the priestly family, she may no longer eat the sacred offerings.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).