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Lexicon :: Strong's H6865 - ṣōr

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צֹר
Transliteration
ṣōr
Pronunciation
tsore
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
The same as צֹר (H6864)
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TWOT Reference: 1965

Strong’s Definitions

צֹר Tsôr, tsore; or צוֹר Tsôwr; the same as H6864; a rock; Tsor, a place in Palestine:—Tyre, Tyrus.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x

The KJV translates Strong's H6865 in the following manner: Tyrus (22x), Tyre (20x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x
The KJV translates Strong's H6865 in the following manner: Tyrus (22x), Tyre (20x).

  1. Tyre or Tyrus = "a rock"

    1. the Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צֹר Tsôr, tsore; or צוֹר Tsôwr; the same as H6864; a rock; Tsor, a place in Palestine:—Tyre, Tyrus.
STRONGS H6865: Abbreviations
† I. צֹר, צוֺר proper name, of a location Τυρος: Tyre, famous Phoenician city (Phoenician צר; Assyrian Ṣurru, so Tel Amarna; Egyptian Ḏa-(ï)rạ, Ḏa-ru WMMAs. u. Eur. 185); — צֹר 2 Samuel 24:7 + 32 times, צוֺר 1 Kings 5:15 + 8 times (Gi); — city of Hiram, friend of David and Solomon 2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:15; 1 Kings 9:11, 12; 1 Chronicles 14:1; 2 Chronicles 2:2; 2 Chronicles 2:10; of artif. Hiram 1 Kings 7:13; בַּתצֹֿר Psalm 45:13 of city personified (another view in Che); צ׳ also in name of Phoenician fortress, מִבְצַרצֿ׳ 2 Samuel 24:7, צ׳ עִיר מ׳ Joshua 19:29 (P); threatened by prophets Amos 1:9, 10 and (with especially reference to commercial greatness) Isaiah 23:1 (מַשָׂא צֹר), Isaiah 23:5; Isaiah 23:8; Isaiah 23:15; Isaiah 23:15; Isaiah 23:17; Jeremiah 25:22 (מַלְכֵיצֹֿר), Jeremiah 27:3 (מֶלֶךְ צֹר), Jeremiah 47:4; Ezekiel 26:2, 3, 4, 7, 15; Ezekiel 27:2, 3(twice in verse); Ezekiel 27:8, 32; Ezekiel 28:2 (נְגִיד צֹר), Ezekiel 28:12 (מֶלֶךְ צוֺר); besieged by Nebuch. Ezekiel 29:18 (twice in verse); compare Zechariah 9:2, 3; Joel 4:4; Psalm 83:8 (ישְׁבֵי צ׳); of Tyrians as proselytes Psalm 87:4 (predict.); — לְצוֺר Hosea 9:13 is probably corrupt, read לָצוֺד or לָצַיִד Greek Version of the LXX We GASm, compare Now. — צ׳ often + צִידוֺן which see; — see, on Tyre, PietschmPhön. 60 ff. RobBR ii. 461 ff. de LuynesVoyage à la Mer Morte (1874) i. 28 ff., and Pl xiii-xviii BdPal. 3 (1898), 307 ff: — II. H6864 צֹר (flint, knife) see III. צדד
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Joshua

19:29

2 Samuel

24:7; 24:7

1 Kings

5:15; 5:15; 7:13; 9:11; 9:12

1 Chronicles

14:1

2 Chronicles

2:2; 2:10

Psalms

45:13; 83:8; 87:4

Song of Songs

2

Isaiah

23:1; 23:5; 23:8; 23:15; 23:15; 23:17

Jeremiah

25:22; 27:3; 47:4

Ezekiel

26:2; 26:3; 26:4; 26:7; 26:15; 27:2; 27:3; 27:8; 27:32; 28:2; 28:12; 29:18

Hosea

9:13

Amos

1:9; 1:10

Zechariah

9:2; 9:3

H6865

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6865 matches the Hebrew צֹר (ṣōr),
which occurs 42 times in 39 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:29 - Then the border turned to Ramah, [reaching] to the fortified city of Tyre; and it turned to Hosah, and it ended at the [Mediterranean] sea at the region of Achzib.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:11

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Now Hiram the king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, carpenters, and stonemasons; and they built a house (palace) for David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7 - and they came to the stronghold of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba.

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Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram had always been a friend of David.

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Now King Solomon sent word and brought [fn]Hiram [a skilled craftsman] from Tyre.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - (Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with as much cedar and cypress timber [from Lebanon] and gold as he desired), at that time King Solomon gave Hiram [fn]twenty cities in the land of Galilee (northern Israel).

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - So Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they [fn]did not please him.

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Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar timbers, masons and carpenters, to build a house (palace) for him.

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Then Solomon sent word to [fn]Hiram king of Tyre, saying, “As you dealt with my father David and sent him cedars to build himself a house in which to live, [please] do the same for me.

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Then Hiram, king of Tyre replied in a letter sent to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you king over them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:12 -

The daughter of Tyre will come with a gift;

The rich among the people will seek your favor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:7 -

Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.

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“I will mention Rahab (Egypt) and Babylon among those who know Me—

Behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia (Cush)—

‘This one was born there.’”

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The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning [fn]Tyre:

Wail, O ships of Tarshish,

For Tyre is destroyed, without house, without harbor;

It is reported to them from the land of Cyprus (Kittim).

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When the report reaches Egypt,

They will be in agony at the report about Tyre.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:8 -

Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,

Whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?

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Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the prostitute’s song:

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It will come to pass at the end of seventy years that the LORD will remember Tyre. Then she will return to her prostitute’s wages and will play the [role of a] prostitute [by trading] with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:22 - all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the islands and the coastlands across the [Mediterranean] Sea;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:3 - and send word to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the sons of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon by the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:4 -

Because of the day that is coming

To destroy all the Philistines

And to cut off from Tyre and Sidon

Every ally who remains.

For the LORD is going to destroy the Philistines,

The remnant [still surviving] of the coastland of [fn]Caphtor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - “Son of man, because [fn]Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gateway of the people is broken; she is open to me. I will be filled, now that she is a desolate waste,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3 - therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea makes its waves crest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - ‘They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her dust and debris from her and make her as bare as [the top of] a rock.

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For thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north [fn]Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots and with horsemen and a great army.

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Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre, “Shall not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall when the wounded groan, when the slaughter occurs in your midst?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:2 - “Now you, son of man, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for Tyre,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:3 - and say to Tyre, who lives at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,

“O Tyre, you have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’

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“The inhabitants of Sidon and [the island] of Arvad were your oarsmen;

Your skilled and wise men, O Tyre, were with you; they were your pilots.

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“In their wailing they will take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for you

And sing a dirge for you:

‘Who is like Tyre,

Like her who is silent [destroyed] in the midst of the sea?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:2 - “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,

“Because your heart is lifted up

And you have said and thought, ‘I am a god,

I sit in the seat of the gods

In the heart of the seas’;

Yet you are [only] a man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God,

Though you [imagine yourself to be more than mortal and] think your mind is as [wise as] the mind of God—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:12 - “Son of man, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for the king of Tyre and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,

“You had the full measure of perfection and the finishing touch [of completeness],

Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:18 - “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army [fn]work hard [at My command] against Tyre; every [soldier’s] head became [fn]bald and every shoulder was worn and peeled [from carrying loads of dirt and stones for siege works]. Yet he had no wages from Tyre [in proportion to the time and labor expended during the siege], either for himself or his army, for the work that he had done against it [for Me].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:13 -

Ephraim, as I have seen,

Is planted in a pleasant [and prosperous] meadow like Tyre;

But Ephraim will bring out his children to the executioner [for slaughter].

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“Moreover, what are you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon and all the [five small] regions of Philistia? Will you pay Me back for something [I have supposedly done to you]? Even if you do pay Me back, I will swiftly and speedily return your deed [of retaliation] on your own head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:9

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Thus says the LORD,

“For three transgressions of Tyre and for four (multiplied delinquencies)

I will not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it,

Because they [as middlemen] deported an entire [Jewish] population to Edom

And did not [seriously] remember their covenant of brotherhood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:10

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“So I will send a fire [of war, conquest, and destruction] on the wall of Tyre,

And it shall consume her citadels.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:2 -

And Hamath also, which borders on it (Damascus),

Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:3

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For Tyre built herself an [impregnable] stronghold [on an island offshore],

And she has heaped up silver like dust

And gold like the mire of the streets.

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