מוּרmûwr
change
Pronunciation: moor · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4171
Meanings
Niph`al: be changed (Jeremiah 48:11)
Hiph`il: ib. (Jeremiah 2:11; Psalms 15:4; Ezekiel 48:14)
1. change, alter (Micah 2:4; Psalms 15:4; Psalms 46:3)
2. exchange (Leviticus 27:10; Hosea 4:7; Psalms 106:20)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 14 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 27:10 You may not exchange or substitute it for another animal—neither a good animal for a bad one nor a bad animal for a good one. But if you do exchange one animal for another, then both the original animal and its substitute will be considered holy.
- Leviticus 27:33 You may not pick and choose between good and bad animals, and you may not substitute one for another. But if you do exchange one animal for another, then both the original animal and its substitute will be considered holy and cannot be bought back.”
- Psalms 15:4 Those who despise flagrant sinners, and honor the faithful followers of the Lord, and keep their promises even when it hurts.
- Psalms 46:2 So we will not fear when earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea.
- Psalms 106:20 They traded their glorious God for a statue of a grass-eating bull.
- Jeremiah 2:11 Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones, even though they are not gods at all? Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols!
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).