Tûwr — H8446

Definition

verb

to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially fortrade or reconnoitring

1. to seek, search out, spy out, explore
1. (Qal)
1. to seek out, select, find out how to do something
2. to spy out, explore
1. explorers, spies (participle)
3. to go about
1. merchant, trader (participle)
2. (Hiphil) to make a search, make a reconnaissance

Usually translated as

search, spy, sent to descry, be excellent, seek, chap, chapman, merchant, merchantman, espy

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• diastréphō (G1294)
• eklégomai (G1586)
• ekteínō (G1614)
• ektinássō (G1621)
• episképtomai (G1980)
• hetoimázō (G2090)

Occurrences

Tûwr occurs 23 times in 22 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (13), Deuteronomy (1), Judges (1), 1 Kings (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Proverbs (1), Ecclesiastes (3), Ezekiel (1)

• Numbers 10:33 — And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days’ journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days’ journey, to search out (לָת֥וּר) a resting place for them.
• Numbers 13:2 — Send thou men, that they may search (וְיָתֻ֙רוּ֙) the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
• Numbers 13:16 — These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out (לָת֣וּר) the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
• Numbers 13:17 — And Moses sent them to spy out (לָת֖וּר) the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
• Numbers 13:21 — So they went up, and searched (וַיָּתֻ֣רוּ) the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
• Numbers 13:25 — And they returned from searching (מִתּ֣וּר) of the land after forty days.
• Numbers 13:32 — And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched (תָּר֣וּ) unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
• Numbers 13:32 — And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search (לָת֣וּר) it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
• Numbers 14:6 — And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched (הַתָּרִ֖ים) the land, rent their clothes:
• Numbers 14:7 — And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search (לָת֣וּר) it, is an exceeding good land.
• Numbers 14:34 — After the number of the days in which ye searched (תַּרְתֶּ֣ם) the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
• Numbers 14:36 — And the men, which Moses sent to search (לָת֣וּר) the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
• Numbers 14:38 — But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search (לָת֥וּר) the land, lived still.
• Numbers 15:39 — And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek (תָתֻ֜רוּ) not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
• Deuteronomy 1:33 — Who went in the way before you, to search you out (לָת֥וּר) a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
• Judges 1:23 — And the house of Joseph sent to descry (וַיָּתִ֥ירוּ) Beth-el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
• 1 Kings 10:15 — Beside that he had of the merchantmen (הַתָּרִ֔ים), and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
• 2 Chronicles 9:14 — Beside that which chapmen (הַתָּרִ֛ים) and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
• Proverbs 12:26 — The righteous is more excellent (יָתֵ֣ר) than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
• Ecclesiastes 1:13 — And I gave my heart to seek and search out (וְלָתוּר֙) by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
• Ecclesiastes 2:3 — I sought (תַּ֣רְתִּי) in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
• Ecclesiastes 7:25 — I applied mine heart to know, and to search (וְלָת֔וּר), and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
• Ezekiel 20:6 — In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied (תַּ֣רְתִּי) for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands: