Strong’s H218 · Hebrew
אוּר
ʼÛwr · oor
Origin the same as אוּר (H217);
Meaning Ur, a place in Chaldaea; also an Israelite
In the King James Version Ur.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 11:28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
- Genesis 11:31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
- Genesis 15:7And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
- 1 Chronicles 11:35Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
- Nehemiah 9:7Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.