Lexical Summary agur: (a kind of bird) perhaps a crane Original Word: עָגוּרTransliteration: agur Phonetic Spelling: (aw-goor') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: (a kind of bird) perhaps a crane Meaning: (a kind of bird) perhaps a crane Strong's Concordance swallow Passive part (but with active sense) of an unused root meaning to twitter: probably the swallow -- swallow. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5693. agur עָגוּר noun [masculine] apparently understood by Masoretes as name of a bird; very uncertain; crane according to Saad (Isaiah), but note of crane not suitable (TristrNHB 239 f.); — וְעָגוּר וְסוּס וְתוֺר Jeremiah 8:7; עָגוּר כְּסוּס Isaiah 38:14 (but here gloss Klo Brd Di Dn CheHpt); Thes and (in Jeremiah) Hi Gf Gie strike out וְ and take ׳ע as adjective of סוס = twittering or the like; Thes assumes transpos. from גער, Ethiopic cry. I, II, III. עַד see I. עדה. עֵד see עוד. עֹד see עוֺד. עִדֹּא see עדד. below, עדד (√ of following; compare Arabic count, reckon, number, period; Aramaic עִדָּנָא time). |
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