Tur means “sent to descry” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8446 תּוּר (tuwr) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tuwr (toor) v. 1. to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially for trade or reconnoitring [a primitive root] It has 22 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include sent, man, and excellent. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tuwr (toor) v. 1. to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially for trade or reconnoitring [a primitive root] KJV: chap(-man), sent to descry, be excellent, merchant(-man), search (out), seek, (e-)spy (out).
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to spy
Usage: 1) to seek, search out, spy out, explore 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to seek out, select, find out how to do something 1a2) to spy out, explore 1a2a) explorers, spies (participle) 1a3) to go about 1a3a) merchant, trader (participle) 1b) (Hiphil) to make a search, make a reconnaissance
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tuwr, 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.
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.
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22 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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 a resting place for them.
Send thou men, that they may search 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.
These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
First 22 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8446.
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 a resting place for them.
Send thou men, that they may search 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.
These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
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 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.
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
After the number of the days in which ye searched 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.
And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
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 not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
Who went in the way before you, to search you out 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.
And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
And I gave my heart to seek and search out 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.
I sought 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.
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
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 for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
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Tur (Strong's H8446) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "sent to descry". tuwr (toor) v. 1. to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially for trade or reconnoitring [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 22 linked usages for Strong's H8446 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8446 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sent, man, and excellent. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.