shur denotes seeing or noticing, and in some contexts watching attentively from a vantage point.

The verb most often marks seeing or noticing: eyes see and cease to see, people perceive, and speakers describe what they see. In a smaller group of contexts, it depicts watchful looking or observation directed toward a place, person, or time.

1. Seeing or noticing · dominant

   In Job 17:15 the third-person masculine singular imperfect asks who will see the speaker's hope, while Job 20:9 says that an eye which saw a man will see him no more. The first-person singular imperfects in Numbers 23:9 and Numbers 24:17 occur in declarations of seeing from the rocks and seeing someone “but not now”; Job 33:14 likewise contrasts God's speech with a person's failure to perceive it.

   Job 17:15Job 20:9Job 33:14Job 34:29Numbers 23:9Numbers 24:17
2. Watchful looking or observation · occasional

   In Hosea 13:7 the first-person singular imperfect is set beside a leopard that will watch along the way. Job 24:15 places the third-person feminine singular imperfect with the adulterer's eye watching for twilight, and Jeremiah 5:26 describes wicked people lying in wait like crouching fowlers; Song of Songs 4:8 uses a second-person feminine singular imperfect in the movement described from mountain heads and animal dens.

   Hosea 13:7Jeremiah 5:26Job 24:15Song of Songs 4:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB uses such wording as “see,” “watch,” “perceive,” “looks,” and “behold.” These are presentations of the surrounding clauses rather than definitions of the Hebrew term.