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šūr - wall
(HALOT 1453)
Hbr. šūr, although probably autochthonous in such passages as Ps 18:30 = 2S 22:30 and Gn 49:22, is a rare poetic synonym of the standard Hebrew terms for wall, such as ḳīr, ḥōmā and gādēr (Wagner 1966:112).