Strong's Concordance Uwr: Ur Original Word: אוּרPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Uwr Phonetic Spelling: (oor) Definition: a city in S. Bab Brown-Driver-Briggs II. אוּר proper name, masculine (flame) father of one of David's heroes 1 Chronicles 11:35 (III. אוּר proper name, of a location see below) III. אור proper name, of a location Ur (Babylonian Uru; seat of moon-god worship; hence Eupolemos in EusebPraep.Ev.ix. 17 says Καμαρίνῃ ἥν τινας λέγειν πόλιν Οὐρίην), ancient city in Southern Babylonia; OT always אור כַּשְׂדִּים i.e. Ur of the Kasdim (Chaldeans) see כַּשְׂדִּים below כשׂד; home of Terah, Abram's father, & A.'s point of departure for Mesopotamia & Canaan Genesis 11:28; Genesis 15:7 (both J), & hence Nehemiah 9:7; also Genesis 11:31 (P); — modern Muqayyar, south of Euphrates, approximately 150 miles southeast of Babylon; see KG94f DlPa 226 f COT on Genesis 11:28. אֲוֵרוֺת see אֻרְיָה below I. ארה. אֲוַרְנָה see אֲרַוְנָה Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Ur The same as 'uwr; Ur, a place in Chaldaea; also an Israelite -- Ur. see HEBREW 'uwr Forms and Transliterations אֽוּר׃ אור׃ בְּא֥וּר באור מֵא֣וּר מאור ’ūr bə’ūr bə·’ūr beUr mê’ūr mê·’ūr meUr UrLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Genesis 11:28 HEB: בְּאֶ֥רֶץ מוֹלַדְתּ֖וֹ בְּא֥וּר כַּשְׂדִּֽים׃ NAS: of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. KJV: of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. INT: the land of his birth Ur of the Chaldeans Genesis 11:31 Genesis 15:7 1 Chronicles 11:35 Nehemiah 9:7 5 Occurrences |
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