Lexical Summary techor: tumors (a result of dysentery) Original Word: טְחֹרTransliteration: techor Phonetic Spelling: (tekh-ore') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: tumors (a result of dysentery) Meaning: a boil, ulcer, a tumor, in the anus, pudenda Strong's Concordance emerod From an unused root meaning to burn; a boil or ulcer (from the inflammation), especially a tumor in the anus or pudenda (the piles) -- emerod. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2914. techor [טְחוֺר] noun masculine1 Samuel 6:4 only plural tumours, result of dysentery (see Aramaic √) (so Aramaic טְחוֺרַיָּא, ) — chiefly Qr for Kt עפלֵי עפלים, hemorrhoids: namely טְחֹרִים Deuteronomy 28:27; 1 Samuel 5:6, 9, 12; זֶהָב טְחֹרֵי 6:4; טְחֹרֵיכֶם צַלְמֵי 6:5; twice it has found its way into the Kt הַזָּהָב טְחֹרֵי 6:17, טְחֹרֵיהֶם צַלְמֵי 6:11; WeSam. 27n., compare GeiUrschrift 408 f. טטף (perhaps √ of following; meaning dubious; DlPr 46 compare Assyrian ‰a‰âpu, surround, encircle; Thes Di proposes √ טוף (compare Arabic go around, whence טוטפות = טפטפוֺת; Kn., following by KleinJPTh 1881, 673 and elsewhere, assumes √ טפף tap, strike, compare στίγμα, and thinks of actual sign or mark in the flesh as originally meant). |
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