חוּר

Strong’s Definition

Chur, the name of four Israelites and one Midianite

Etymology & Derivation

the same as H2353 (חוּר) or H2352 (חוּר);

KJV Usage

Hur.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.a chief assistant to moses and aaron
• 2.grandfather of bezaleel, the chief artificer of the tabernacle; possibly the same as 1 above
• 3.the 4th of the 5 kings of midian who were slain with balaam after peor
• 4.father of rephaiah in the time of nehemiah
• 5.father of ben-hur who was commissariat officer for solomon in mount ephraim

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Chûwr; Pronunciation: khoor