1757. Dura
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Dura: a place near Bab.
Original Word: דּוּרָא
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Transliteration: Dura
Phonetic Spelling: (doo-raw')
Short Definition: Dura

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
(Aramaic) from dur
Definition
a place near Bab.
NASB Translation
Dura (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
דּוּרָא proper name, of a location near Babylonia, only ׳בִּקְעַת ד Daniel 3:1, ᵐ5. τοῦ περιβόλου (Syro-Hex. περίβολον), Θ Δεειρα; Dûru is name of several places in Babylonia DlPar. 216; BaerDn. p. x, compare AndrM 58*; HoffmPers. Märtyrer 164 f.; name of small river and mounds OppExpéd. i. 238 f. (see Dr); improbably explained as = zôr, depression (name actually used of lower Euphrase and Tigris valleys) by WetzstDe Jes:3 701f.; Babylonian dûru = wall.



Strong's
Dura

(Aramaic) probably from duwr; circle or dwelling; Dura, a place in Babylonia -- Dura.

see HEBREW duwr

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