STRONGS NUMBER H4171


Word Summary
mur: to change
Original Word: מוּר
Transliteration: mur
Phonetic Spelling: (moor)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to change
Meaning: to alter, to barter, to dispose of
Strong's Concordance
exchange, remove

A primitive root; to alter; by implication, to barter, to dispose of -- X at all, (ex-)change, remove.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4171. mur

[מוּר‎] verb change (Late Hebrew id., Hiph`il; Arabic (medial ו‎) is move to and fro (intransitive); (medial י‎) procure food, Aramaic buy or import food, NöZMG xi. 1886, 154); —

Niph`al Perfect נָמָ֑ר‎ (as if from מרר‎) be changed, Jeremiah 48:11 subject רֵיחוֺ‎ (of wine, figurative of Moab);

Hiph`il Perfect הֵמִירJeremiah 2:11; on הַהֵימִירib., see K?:i. 457; Imperfect יָמִירPsalm 15:4 3t.; jussive יָמֵרEzekiel 48:14; suffix יְמִירֶנּוּLeviticus 27:33 (twice in verse); אָמִירHosea 4:7; וַיָּמִ֫ירוּPsalm 106:20; Infinitive construct הָמִיר46:3; absolute הָמֵרLeviticus 27:10, 33; —

1 change, alter, Micah 2:4 (object עַמִּי חֵלֶק‎; but בַּחֶבֶל יִמַּד ᵐ5‎, so StaZAW 1886, 122 f.); Psalm 15:4 (no object expressed); Hiph`il declar. 46:3 (ארץ‎ subject, Hup Che Bae and others, Ges§ 115, 2, R. 2) when the earth shews change; Krochm Gr proposes הִמּוֺג‎ (compare מוג46:7b "" מוט‎), but needless.

2 exchange (followed by accusative of object relinquished, + בְּ‎ before object acquired) Leviticus 27:10 (4 t. in verse) (2t. as Infinitive absolute); Hosea 4:7; Psalm 106:20; compare with one object Leviticus 27:33 (3 t. in verse) (once as Infinitive absolute); Jeremiah 21:11 (twice in verse) (compare above); without object Ezekiel 48:14 (but Ew Co יוּמַר‎, Hoph`al).

Hoph`al Imperfect יוּמַרEzekiel 48:14 Ew Co, compare Berthol.