H2114 — זוּר (zuwr)¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: H2114
Original: זוּר
Transliteration: zuwr
Pronunciation: zoor
Part of Speech: Verb
Root: Primitive root
Occurrences: 76 unique verses / 81 tokens across 16 books
First Occurrence: Exo 29:33 — "but a stranger shall not eat [thereof], because they [are] holy"
Hapax Legomenon: No

Lexicon Definition¶

A primitive root; to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery: (come from) another (man, place), fanner, go away, (e-)strange(-r, thing, woman).

Verb Stem / Form Notes¶

The Strong's gatherer classifies H2114 as a verb. The Hebrew parser does not isolate Strong's numbers directly; lemma searches for pointed זוּר returned no rows, while unpointed זור/זר returns homographs. Verified H2114-like parser rows include:

Form Type	Verified Parser Examples	Typical Sense
Qal perfect / verbal forms	Psa 78:30; Job 19:13; Job 19:17	turn aside, be estranged/loathsome
Niphal perfect	Isa 1:4; Eze 14:5	be turned away / be estranged
Hophal participle	Psa 69:8	become a stranger / alienated
Adjectival forms from זר	Exo 29:33; Exo 30:9; Lev 10:1	strange, unauthorized, outsider

Because the parser search is homograph-heavy, these are reported as verified form notes rather than a full exhaustive stem count.

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Translation	Verses	%
strange	12	15.8%
strangers	12	15.8%
a stranger	5	6.6%
of strangers	5	6.6%
stranger	5	6.6%
and the stranger	4	5.3%
estranged	3	3.9%
for a stranger	3	3.9%
are	2	2.6%
the strangers	2	2.6%
Other (another, strange woman, fanners, gone away, etc.)	23	30.3%

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
Proverbs	14	1.5
Isaiah	9	0.7
Numbers	8	0.6
Ezekiel	8	0.6
Jeremiah	7	0.5
Psalms	7	0.3
Job	5	0.5
Leviticus	4	0.5
Hosea	4	2.0
Exodus	3	0.2
Deuteronomy	2	0.2
Obadiah	1	4.8
Joel	1	1.4
Lamentations	1	0.6
1 Kings	1	0.1
2 Kings	1	0.1

Proverbs gives the largest concentration by count, especially "strange woman" and surety-for-a-stranger warnings. Torah usage is cultic/legal; prophetic usage often describes estrangement, foreign powers, or strange gods.

Semantic Categories¶

1. Unauthorized Person in Holy/Cultic Space¶

Exo 29:33 — "but a stranger shall not eat [thereof], because they [are] holy"
Exo 30:33 — "whosoever putteth [any] of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off"
Lev 22:10 — "There shall no stranger eat [of] the holy thing"
Num 3:10 — "the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death"

2. Unauthorized / Strange Offering or Fire¶

Exo 30:9 — "Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon"
Lev 10:1 — "offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not"
Num 3:4 — Nadab and Abihu "offered strange fire before the LORD"
Num 26:61 — Nadab and Abihu died "when they offered strange fire"

3. Strange Gods / Alien Worship¶

Deut 32:16 — "They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods]"
Psa 44:20 — "stretched out our hands to a strange god"
Psa 81:9 — "There shall no strange god be in thee"
Jer 5:19 — "served strange gods in your land"

4. Estrangement / Turning Away¶

Isa 1:4 — "they are gone away backward"
Job 19:13 — "mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me"
Eze 14:5 — "they are all estranged from me through their idols"
Psa 69:8 — "I am become a stranger unto my brethren"

5. The Strange Woman / Sexual Outsider¶

Prov 2:16 — "deliver thee from the strange woman... from the stranger which flattereth"
Prov 5:3 — "the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb"
Prov 5:20 — "ravished with a strange woman... the bosom of a stranger"
Eze 16:32 — "taketh strangers instead of her husband"

6. Foreigners / Hostile Outsiders¶

Isa 1:7 — "your land, strangers devour it in your presence"
Lam 5:2 — "Our inheritance is turned to strangers"
Obad 1:11 — "the strangers carried away captive his forces"
Joel 3:17 — "no strangers pass through her any more"

7. Strange / Alien Thing or Act¶

Isa 28:21 — "his strange work... his strange act"
Hos 8:12 — "they were counted as a strange thing"
2 Ki 19:24 — "I have digged and drunk strange waters"

Common Collocations¶

Word	Strong's	Co-occurrences	Typical Pattern
יְהֹוָה (YHWH)	H3068	15x	cultic boundary or covenant estrangement before the LORD
בֵּן (ben)	H1121	14x	children/sons, seed, or familial contrast
נׇכְרִי (nokriy)	H5237	12x	paired outsider/stranger vocabulary
קָרַב (qarab)	H7126	9x	unauthorized person "coming near"
בַּיִת (bayith)	H1004	8x	house/household or temple contexts
מוּת (muth)	H4191	8x	cultic trespass death penalty contexts
אָכַל (akal)	H398	7x	outsider not eating holy things
אֶרֶץ (erets)	H776	7x	strange land/foreign powers
אִשָּׁה (ishshah)	H802	6x	strange woman / marital outsider
אֱלֹהִים (elohim)	H430	6x	strange gods

Synonyms / Domain Neighbors¶

H5236 נֵכָר (nekar) — foreignness, foreign land/god; parent noun of nokriy
H5237 נׇכְרִי (nokriy) — foreign/strange person, often ethnic or covenant-outsider adjective
H312 אַחֵר (acher) — another, different; semantic neighbor for "otherness"
H2015 הָפַךְ (haphak) — turn/change/overturn; semantic neighbor in "different" domain

Easily Confused Words¶

Word	Strong's	Shared Translation	Key Difference
גֵּר (ger)	H1616	"stranger," "a stranger"	ger = resident sojourner under Israelite law; zuwr = outsider/unauthorized/estranged person or thing
נׇכְרִי (nokriy)	H5237	"strange," "stranger"	nokriy = foreign/alien identity; zuwr emphasizes turning aside, alienness, or unauthorized/profane status
נֵכָר (nekar)	H5236	"strange," "strangers"	nekar names foreignness or a foreign thing/person; zuwr is verbal/adjectival "strange/estranged"
גּוּר (gur)	H1481	"strangers"	gur is to sojourn/reside; zuwr is to be alien/strange or act as outsider
ἀλλότριος (allotrios)	G245	LXX bridge	Greek "belonging to another" collapses several Hebrew outsider terms

LXX Mapping¶

Greek Equivalent	Co-occurrences	PMI	Notes
ἀλλότριος (allotrios) G245	37	6.64	Primary equivalent; "another's, foreign, not one's own"
ἀλλογενής (allogenes) G241	15	7.38	Foreign-born / alien people
ἀπαλλοτριόω (apallotrioo) G526	3	6.69	Estrange away
ἀσεβής (asebes) G765	4	2.76	Impious/ungodly in some contexts

The strongest bridge is G245 allotrios. Existing trace TR-nokriy-allotrios.md already documents how zuwr, nokriy, and nekar are partially collapsed into allotrios in the LXX.