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Exodus 14:25
“And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5493 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to turn off (literal or figurative)
- Derivation
- or שׂוּר; (Hosea 9:12), a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), [idiom] grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, [idiom] be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יָּ֗סַר — verb Hiphil, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 301 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 8:13Genesis 19:2Genesis 19:3Genesis 30:32Genesis 30:35
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read סוּר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.