Isaiah 18:5
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
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Sour
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Hosea 4:18
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
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סוּר
çûwr · soor
1 times translated as this KJV form308 total Strong's occurrences
to turn off (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), × grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, × be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
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Strong's first: Hosea 4:18Strong's last: Hosea 4:18
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For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
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sour
SOUR, adjective
1. Acid; having a pungent taste; sharp to the taste; tart; as, vinegar is sour; sour cider; sour beer.
2. Acid and austere or astringent; as, sunripe fruits are often sour
3. Harsh of temper; crabbed; peevish; austere; morose; as a man of a sour temper.
4. Afflictive; as sour adversities. [Not in use.]
5. Expressing discontent or peevishness. He never uttered a sour word. The lord treasurer often looked on me with a sour countenance.
6. Harsh to the feelings; cold and damp; as sour weather.
7. Rancid; musty.
8. Turned, as milk; coagulated.
SOUR, noun An acid substance.
SOUR, verb transitive
1. To make acid; to cause to have a sharp taste. So the sun's heat, with different pow'rs, ripens the grape, the liquor sours.
2. To make harsh, cold or unkindly. Tufts of grass sour land.
3. To make harsh in temper; to make cross, crabbed, peevish or discontented. Misfortunes often sour'd, nor wrath debas'd my heart.
4. To make uneasy or less agreeable. Hail, great king! To sour your happiness I must report the queen is dead.
5. In rural economy, to macerate, as lime, and render fir for plaster or mortar.
SOUR, verb intransitive
1. To become acid; to acquire the quality of tartness or pungency to the taste. Cider sours rapidly in the rays of the sun. When food sours in the stomach, it is evidence of imperfect digestion.
2. TO become peevish or crabbed. They hinder the hatred of vice from souring into severity.
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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