Bible Names

Dura: meaning of the name

Dura means “same as Dor.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Dura in Hebrew and Greek

דּוּרָא H1757

Dûwrâʼ (doo-raw') — Dura, a place in Babylonia

(Aramaic) probably from H1753 (דּוּר); circle or dwelling;

Places named Dura

Dura in Scripture

“Dura” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Daniel 3:1

    Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.