תּוּר (tur) means “to spy” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: toor Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
תּוּר · tur · to spy
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
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a primitive root; to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially fortrade or reconnoitring
KJV glosses: chap(-man), sent to descry, be excellent, merchant(-man), search (out), seek, (e-) spy (out).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to spy out | 5 |
| among those who had spied out | 1 |
| and explore | 1 |
| and explored | 1 |
| and spied out | 1 |
| by following | 1 |
| from spying out | 1 |
| he roams | 1 |
| i had searched out | 1 |
| i sought | 1 |
| is cautious | 1 |
| sent spies | 1 |
| they had spied out | 1 |
| to explore | 1 |
| to seek | 1 |
| to seek out | 1 |
| you spied | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to search | 3 |
| and search out | 1 |
| and searched | 1 |
| and to search | 1 |
| chapmen | 1 |
| from searching | 1 |
| i sought | 1 |
| in which ye searched | 1 |
| more excellent | 1 |
| of the merchantmen | 1 |
| of them that searched | 1 |
| sent to descry | 1 |
| that i had espied | 1 |
| that they may search | 1 |
| them and that ye seek | 1 |
| them to spy out | 1 |
| through to search | 1 |
| to search out | 1 |
| to spy out | 1 |
| which they had searched | 1 |
| you to search you out | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 23 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
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.
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by wordThese were the names of the men Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses gave to Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.
Read word by wordWhen Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.
Read word by wordSo they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
Read word by wordAfter forty days the men returned from spying out the land,
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordJoshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
Read word by wordand said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.
Read word by wordIn 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.
Read word by wordSo 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—
Read word by wordOf those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
Read word by wordThese 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.
Read word by wordwho 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.
Read word by wordThey sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),
Read word by wordnot including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.
Read word by wordnot 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.
Read word by wordHe roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
Read word by wordA righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.
Read word by wordAnd I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a miserable task God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
Read word by wordI 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.
Read word by wordI 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.
Read word by wordOn 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.
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