Strong's H7793 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: שׁוּר (Shûwr)

Pronunciation: shoor

Morphology: n-pr-loc

Name Meaning: Shur = "wall"

Derivation: the same as שׁוּר (shûwr) [H7791];

Definition: Shur, a region of the Desert

KJV Renderings: Shur.

Senses

1. a place southwest of Palestine on the eastern border or within the border of Egypt; the Israelites passed through the wilderness of Shur after crossing the Red Sea
1. also 'wilderness of Etham'

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.