# H5493 סוּר

סוּר (çûwr), Strong’s H5493: to turn off (literal or figurative) KJV: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), [idiom]…. Occurs 300 times.

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*çûwr* — to turn off (literal or figurative)

KJV: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), [idiom]…

Occurs 300 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- סוּר and [שׂוּר] 300 vb. turn aside
- Qal
- 1 turn aside, out of one's course
- 2 depart
- 3 of lifeless things = be removed
- 4 = come to an end
- Pô‛lēl he turned aside my ways (my steps)
- Hiph.
- 1 cause to (turn aside,) depart, common word for remove, take away
- 2 rarer uses
- Pô‛lēl be taken away, removed

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 8:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=13) — In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth…
- [Genesis 19:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=2) — and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can…
- [Genesis 19:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=3) — He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked…
- [Genesis 30:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=32) — I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among…
- [Genesis 30:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=35) — That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and…
- [Genesis 35:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=2) — Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify…
- [Genesis 38:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=14) — She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate…
- [Genesis 38:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=19) — She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
- [Genesis 41:42](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=42) — Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen…
- [Genesis 48:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/48?v=17) — When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s…