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שׂוּר

sur

to saw

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Strong’s H7787Verb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

he sawed1

In the text

1 Chronicles 20:3וַיָּשַׂר
David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שׂוּר] vb. saw

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.