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Shur may refer to: Places * Shur (Bible), a location in the Hebrew Bible * Shur-e Qarah Kand, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Shur, Fars, a village in Iran * Shur, Qazvin, a village in Iran * Shur, Iranshahr, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran * Shur, Tehran, a village in Iran * Shur-e Bala, a village in Iran * Shur-e Sofla, a village in Iran * Shur Qazi, a village in Iran People *Gerald Shur (1933-2020), American lawyer, and the founder of the US Federal Witness Protection Program *Itaal Shur (born 1966), American songwriter *Michael Shur (born 1942), Soviet-born American professor of solid-state electronics and physics Other uses * USS ''Shur'' (SP-782), a United States Navy patrol boat 1917–1919 *Dastgāh-e Šur Dastgāh-e Šur ( fa, دستگاه شور; az, Şur) is one of the seven ''Dastgāh''s of Persian Music (Classically, Persian Music is organized into seven ''Dastgāhs'' and five '' Āvāz''es, however from a merely technical point of vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shur (Bible)
Shur, sometimes rendered in translations as Sur, is a location mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. James K. Hoffmeier believes that the 'way of Shur' was located along the Wadi Tumilat — an arable strip of land to the east of the Nile Delta, serving as the ancient transit route between Ancient Egypt and Canaan across the Sinai Peninsula. When Hagar ran away from Sarah ( Abram's wife, her owner), "the Angel of the Lord found her ... by the fountain in the way to Shur" (Book of Genesis, , KJV). Shur is also mentioned in 1 Samuel 15:7 — "Then Saul slaughtered the Amalekites from Havilah all the way to Shur, east of Egypt."Bible, New Living Translation According to the Book of Exodus (), Marah is located in the "wilderness of Shur". Easton's Bible Dictionary (1893) says that Shur is "a part, probably, of the Arabian desert, on the north-eastern border of Egypt, giving its name to a wilderness extending from Egypt toward Philistia (''Gen''. 16:7; 20:1; 25:18; ''Ex'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |