שור

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Aramaic

Verb

שור • (transliteration needed)

to jump, to leap

Hebrew

Root
שׁ־ו־ר (sh-w-r)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ṯawr- (“bull, ox”). Cognate with Arabic ثَوْر (ṯawr).

Pronunciation

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Noun

שׁוֹר • (shor) m (plural indefinite שוורים / שְׁוָרִים)

ox
- Tanach, Exodus 23:04, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
  כִּי תִפְגַּע שׁוֹר אֹיִבְךָ אוֹ חֲמֹרוֹ תֹּעֶה הָשֵׁב תְּשִׁיבֶנּוּ לוֹ׃
  ki tifgá' shor oyiv-khá o ḥamór-o to'eh hashev tshivennu lo
  If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
- a. 217 C.E., Mishnah, Bava Kamma 3:11:
  שׁוֹר שֶׁ הָיָה רוֹדֵף אַחַר שׁוֹר אַחֵר, וְ הֻזַּק, זֶה אוֹמֵר שׁוֹרְךָ הִזִּיק, וְזֶה אוֹמֵר לֹא כִי אֶלָּא בְ סֶלַע לָקָה, הַ מּוֹצִיא מֵ חֲבֵרוֹ עָלָיו הָרְאָיָה.
  Shor she-hayá rodéf aḥár shor aḥér, v-huzzáq, zeh omér shorkhá hizzíq, v-zeh omér lo khi élla v-séla' laqá, ha-motsí me-ḥaver-ó 'aláv ha-r'ayah.
  An ox that had been pursuing another ox so it was injured, if one says "Your ox injured it" and another says "Not so, rather it was hit by a rock," the burden of proof rests upon the claimant.

References

H7794 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Proper noun

שׁוֹר • (shor) m

(astronomy) Taurus (a constellation of the zodiac supposedly shaped like a bull and containing the star Aldebaran)
(astrology) Taurus (the zodiac sign for the bull, ruled by Venus and covering April 21 - May 21 (tropical astrology) or May 16 - June 15 (sidereal astrology))

See also

Zodiac signs in Hebrew (layout · text)

טָלֶה (Talé)	שׁוֹר (Shor)	תְּאוֹמִים (Te'omim)	סַרְטָן (Sartan)

אַרְיֵה (Aryé)	בְּתוּלָה (Betulá)	מאזניים (Moznayim)	עַקְרָב (Akrav)

קַשָּׁת (Kashat)	גְּדִי (Gdi)	דְּלִי (Dli)	דָּגִים (Dagim)

References

“שור” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Further reading

שור on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

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