Tur תּוּר

Tur (Hebrew תּוּר, Strong's H8446) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to spy”. It occurs 24 times in 23 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Tur, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Numbers

• 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 a resting place for them.So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.
• Numbers 13:2
  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.“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”
• Numbers 13:16
  These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.These were the names of the men Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses gave to Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.
• Numbers 13:17
  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:When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.
• Numbers 13:21
  So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
• Numbers 13:25
  And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,
• 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 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.So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.
• Numbers 14:6
  And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore 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 it, is an exceeding good land.and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.
• Numbers 14:34
  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.In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
• Numbers 14:36
  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,So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about 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 the land, lived still.Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
• 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 not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 1:33
  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.who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.

Judges

• Judges 1:23
  And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth–el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 10:15
  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.not including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 9:14
  Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.not including the revenue from the merchants and traders. And all the Arabian kings and governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.

Job

• Job 39:8
  The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 12:26
  The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.

Ecclesiastes

• Ecclesiastes 1:13
  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.And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
• Ecclesiastes 2:3
  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 sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
• Ecclesiastes 7:25
  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:I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

Ezekiel

• 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 for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).