Lexical Definition

‎חֹר‎ chôr (khore) noble ^H:N-M
or (fully) חוֹר chôwr (khore); from ‎חָרַר‎; (compare ‎חֹרִי‎)

noble.

• properly, white or pure (from the cleansing or shining power of fire
• hence (figuratively) noble (in rank)

1) a noble, freeborn one

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. [‎חֹר‎] noun masculine^{1Kgs 21:8} noble, late, especially Nehemiah, see Dr^{Intr 519 n.} (see Lag^{BN 32}) **compare Nö^{ZMG lvii (1903), 416} — only plural ‎חֹרִים‎ 1Kgs 21:8 + 6 t., ‎חוֺרִים‎ Eccl 10:17; Neh 6:17 + 3 t.; suffix ‎חֹרֶיהָ‎ Isa 34:12 — nobles in Naboth's city 1Kgs 21:8; 1Kgs 21:11 nobles of Judah, ‎חֹרֵי יְהוּדָה‎; Jer 27:20; Jer 39:6; Neh 6:17; Neh 13:17, ‎והסגנים‎ ‎׳‎‎הח‎ (in Jerusalem) Neh 2:16; Neh 4:8*; Neh 4:13*; Neh 5:7; Neh 7:5; , of Edom Isa 34:12. — I. ‎חֹר‎, see II. ‎חור‎.

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