חוּר
chur
Hur
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Analysis of חוּר (chur, H2354I) Based on the lexicon data provided, חוּר appears in the Hebrew Bible only once, making it an extremely rare term. The lemma is identified as a proper noun—"Hur"—rather than a common word with semantic range. This single occurrence severely limits what can be determined about its meaning or usage patterns from biblical lexical evidence alone. The rarity of this entry suggests it likely refers to a specific person or place name rather than a concept or object with broader application across the text. Without access to the contextual verse where it appears, the lexicon data does not permit analysis of how the term functions linguistically or what significance it may have held in biblical narrative or history. The designation as a proper noun indicates its primary function was to identify rather than describe. For meaningful analysis beyond simple identification, one would need to examine the specific biblical context in which this term appears, as a single occurrence provides insufficient data to establish patterns, theological importance, or linguistic relationships with other Hebrew words.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
1 total occurrence across the text