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ḥūr חוּר ‘Hur’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: the same as ḥūr חוּר ‘white’ or ḥur חֻר ‘cavern’
Roots: חור חור חור

ḥūr pr n m pers
Hur = "hole"
1) a chief assistant to Moses and Aaron
2) grandfather of Bezaleel, the chief artificer of the tabernacle; possibly the same as 1 above
3) the 4th of the 5 kings of Midian who were slain with Balaam after Peor
4) father of Rephaiah in the time of Nehemiah
5) father of Ben-Hur who was commissariat officer for Solomon in Mount Ephraim

Mentioned in Exodus 17:12, 17:10, 24:14, 31:2, 35:30, 38:22 Numbers 31:8 Joshua 13:21 Nehemiah 3:9 1 Chronicles 2:50, 4:4, 2:20, 2:19, 4:1 2 Chronicles 1:5

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