Judges 1:23
And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
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Judges 1:23
And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
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תּוּר
tûwr · toor
1 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially for trade or reconnoitring
Strong's KJV usage: chap(-man), sent to descry, be excellent, merchant(-man), search (out), seek, (e-) spy (out).
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And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
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descry
DESCRY, verb transitive
1. To espy; to explore; to examine by observation.
The house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. Judges 1:23.
2. To detect; to find out; to discover any thing concealed.
3. To see; to behold; to have a sight of from a distance; as, the seamen descried land.
4. To give notice of something suddenly discovered.
DESCRY, noun Discovery; thing descovered.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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