תּוּרtûwr
יָתֵר: see תור (Proverbs 12:26)
Pronunciation: toor · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8446
Meanings
תּוּר: seek out, spy out, explore
Qal
1. seek out, select (Numbers 10:33; Deuteronomy 1:33; Ezekiel 20:6)
2. spy out, explore (Numbers 13:2; Numbers 13:16; Numbers 13:17)
3. go about (Numbers 15:39; 1 Kings 10:15; 2 Chronicles 9:14)
Hiph`il: they made a reconnoisance at Bethel, the righteous searches out (Judges 1:23; Proverbs 12:26)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 24 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 10:33 They marched for three days after leaving the mountain of the Lord, with the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant moving ahead of them to show them where to stop and rest.
- Numbers 13:2 “Send out men to explore the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the Israelites. Send one leader from each of the twelve ancestral tribes.”
- Numbers 13:16 These are the names of the men Moses sent out to explore the land. (Moses called Hoshea son of Nun by the name Joshua.)
- Numbers 13:17 Moses gave the men these instructions as he sent them out to explore the land: “Go north through the Negev into the hill country.
- Numbers 13:21 So they went up and explored the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.
- Numbers 13:25 After exploring the land for forty days, the men returned
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).