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Strong's H2114 זוּר (zur)

Zur means “fanner” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2114 — euthymeo (“cheer up”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2114
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 76
Books 16

Strong's H2114 Quick Answer

Strong's H2114 זוּר (zuwr) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. zuwr (zoor) v. 1. to turn aside (especially for lodging) 2. hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane It has 76 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include strange, turned, adultery, and foreigners. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
zuwr (zoor) v. 1. to turn aside (especially for lodging) 2. hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane
Usage
76 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
strange, turned, adultery, and foreigners

Meaning and Definition

zuwr (zoor) v. 1. to turn aside (especially for lodging) 2. hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane 3. specifically (active participle) to commit adultery [a primitive root] KJV: (come from) another (man, place), fanner, go away, (e-)strange(-r, thing, woman).

Original Word
זוּר
Transliteration
zuwr
Derivation
Root: זור
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2114. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

be a stranger

Usage: 1) to be strange, be a stranger 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to become estranged 1a2) strange, another, stranger, foreigner, an enemy (participle) 1a3) strange woman, prostitute, harlot (meton) 1b) (Niphal) to be estranged 1c) (Hophal) to be a stranger, be one alienated

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How Strong's H2114 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render zuwr, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

strange Exodus 30:9 23× adultery Ezekiel 16:32 foreigners Obadiah 1:11 turned Lamentations 5:2

How Strong's H2114 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 76 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2114 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2114 in the Old Testament

76 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 29:33 KJV

And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.

Exodus 30:9 KJV

Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.

Exodus 30:33 KJV

Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

Usage Excerpts

First 76 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2114.

Exodus 29:33 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
Exodus 30:9 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
Exodus 30:33 Old Testament, KJV
Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 10:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
Leviticus 22:10 Old Testament, KJV
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Leviticus 22:12 Old Testament, KJV
If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
Leviticus 22:13 Old Testament, KJV
But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall be no stranger eat thereof.
Numbers 1:51 Old Testament, KJV
And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers 3:4 Old Testament, KJV
And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
Numbers 3:10 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers 3:38 Old Testament, KJV
But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers 16:40 Old Testament, KJV
To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
Numbers 18:4 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
Numbers 18:7 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers 26:61 Old Testament, KJV
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
Deuteronomy 25:5 Old Testament, KJV
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Deuteronomy 32:16 Old Testament, KJV
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
1 Kings 3:18 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
2 Kings 19:24 Old Testament, KJV
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
Job 15:19 Old Testament, KJV
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
Job 19:13 Old Testament, KJV
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
Job 19:15 Old Testament, KJV
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:17 Old Testament, KJV
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
Job 19:27 Old Testament, KJV
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Psalms 44:20 Old Testament, KJV
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Psalms 54:3 Old Testament, KJV
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms 58:3 Old Testament, KJV
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Psalms 69:8 Old Testament, KJV
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Psalms 78:30 Old Testament, KJV
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
Psalms 81:9 Old Testament, KJV
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
Psalms 109:11 Old Testament, KJV
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Proverbs 2:16 Old Testament, KJV
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Proverbs 5:3 Old Testament, KJV
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Proverbs 5:10 Old Testament, KJV
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Proverbs 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Proverbs 5:20 Old Testament, KJV
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs 6:1 Old Testament, KJV
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Proverbs 7:5 Old Testament, KJV
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Proverbs 11:15 Old Testament, KJV
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
Proverbs 14:10 Old Testament, KJV
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Proverbs 20:16 Old Testament, KJV
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Proverbs 22:14 Old Testament, KJV
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Proverbs 23:33 Old Testament, KJV
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Proverbs 27:2 Old Testament, KJV
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Proverbs 27:13 Old Testament, KJV
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Isaiah 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Isaiah 1:7 Old Testament, KJV
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 17:10 Old Testament, KJV
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Isaiah 25:2 Old Testament, KJV
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Isaiah 25:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
Isaiah 28:21 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
Isaiah 29:5 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
Isaiah 43:12 Old Testament, KJV
I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
Isaiah 61:5 Old Testament, KJV
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
Jeremiah 2:25 Old Testament, KJV
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Jeremiah 3:13 Old Testament, KJV
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:19 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.
Jeremiah 18:14 Old Testament, KJV
Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
Jeremiah 30:8 Old Testament, KJV
For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
Jeremiah 51:2 Old Testament, KJV
And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
Jeremiah 51:51 Old Testament, KJV
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.
Lamentations 5:2 Old Testament, KJV
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Ezekiel 7:21 Old Testament, KJV
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
Ezekiel 11:9 Old Testament, KJV
And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
Ezekiel 14:5 Old Testament, KJV
That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Ezekiel 16:32 Old Testament, KJV
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 28:7 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
Ezekiel 28:10 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 30:12 Old Testament, KJV
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel 31:12 Old Testament, KJV
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Hosea 5:7 Old Testament, KJV
They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
Hosea 7:9 Old Testament, KJV
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
Hosea 8:7 Old Testament, KJV
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Hosea 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Joel 3:17 Old Testament, KJV
So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
Obadiah 1:11 Old Testament, KJV
In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2114, grouped by book.

Exodus 3 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 4 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 8 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 5 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 7 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 14 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 9 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 7 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 8 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 4 usages, Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Old Testament
Obadiah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2114 FAQ

What does zur (זוּר) mean?

Zur (Strong's H2114) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "fanner". zuwr (zoor) v. 1. to turn aside (especially for lodging) 2. hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane

How many times is zur (זוּר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 76 linked usages for Strong's H2114 across 16 books.

Where can I study zur (זוּר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2114 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate zur (זוּר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as strange, turned, adultery, and foreigners. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.