קוּרqûwr
קַוְקָו: might (?) (Isaiah 18:2; Isaiah 18:7)
Pronunciation: koor · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6979
Meanings
קוּר: bore, dig
Qal: I have dug (2 Kings 19:24; Isaiah 37:25)
Hiph`il: see I, II. קרר
קָרַר: be cold
Hiph`il: make or keep cool (Jeremiah 6:7)
קָרַר: Pilpel: tear down (?), see I. קִיר 3 near the end (Isaiah 22:5)
Same root
- קִירqîyr · H7023a wall (as built in a trench)
- מָקוֹרmâqôwr · H4726properly, something dug, i.e. a (general) source (of water, even when naturally flowing; also of tears, blood (by euphemism, of the female pudenda); figuratively, of happiness, wisdom, progeny)
- קוּרqûwr · H6980(only plural) trenches, i.e. a web (as if so formed)
- קוֹרָהqôwrâh · H6982a rafter (forming trenches as it were); by implication, a roof
- קַרְקֹרQarqôr · H7174Karkor, a place East of the Jordan
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 24:17 I see him, but not here and now. I perceive him, but far in the distant future. A star will rise from Jacob; a scepter will emerge from Israel. It will crush the heads of Moab’s people, cracking the skulls of the people of Sheth.
- 2 Kings 19:24 I have dug wells in many foreign lands and refreshed myself with their water. With the sole of my foot I stopped up all the rivers of Egypt!’
- Isaiah 22:5 Oh, what a day of crushing defeat! What a day of confusion and terror brought by the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, upon the Valley of Vision! The walls of Jerusalem have been broken, and cries of death echo from the mountainsides.
- Isaiah 37:25 I have dug wells in many foreign lands and refreshed myself with their water. With the sole of my foot, I stopped up all the rivers of Egypt!’
- Jeremiah 6:7 She spouts evil like a fountain. Her streets echo with the sounds of violence and destruction. I always see her sickness and sores.
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).