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Lexicon :: Strong's H6697 - ṣûr

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צוּר
Transliteration
ṣûr
Pronunciation
tsoor
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Part of Speech
masculine noun, proper noun with reference to deity
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1901a

Strong’s Definitions

צוּר tsûwr, tsoor; or צֻר tsur; from H6696; properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous):—edge, × (mighty) God (one), rock, × sharp, stone, × strength, × strong. See also H1049.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x

The KJV translates Strong's H6697 in the following manner: rock (64x), strength (5x), sharp (2x), God (2x), beauty (1x), edge (1x), stones (1x), mighty One (1x), strong (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x
The KJV translates Strong's H6697 in the following manner: rock (64x), strength (5x), sharp (2x), God (2x), beauty (1x), edge (1x), stones (1x), mighty One (1x), strong (1x).

  1. rock, cliff

    1. rocky wall, cliff

    2. rock (with flat surface)

    3. block of stone, boulder

    4. rock (specific)

    5. rock (of God)

    6. rock (of heathen gods)

      proper noun with reference to deity

    7. Rock

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צוּר tsûwr, tsoor; or צֻר tsur; from H6696; properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous):—edge, × (mighty) God (one), rock, × sharp, stone, × strength, × strong. See also H1049.
STRONGS H6697: Abbreviations
† I. צוּר noun masculineJob 29:6 rock, cliff; — צ׳ absolute Exodus 17:6 +, construct Deuteronomy 8:15 +; suffix צוּרִי 2 Samuel 22:3, etc.; plural צֻרִים Numbers 23:9 +, צוּרוֺת Job 28:10; construct צוּרֵי 1 Samuel 24:3 (Gi 1 Samuel 24:2); —
1.
a. rocky wall, cliff, Exodus 17:6 (twice in verse) (E), Deuteronomy 8:15 (הַחַלָּמִישׁ צ׳), Isaiah 48:21 (twice in verse); Psalm 78:15; Psalm 78:20; Psalm 105:41; Psalm 114:8; (|| חַלָּמִישׁ); בּוֺא בַצּ׳ Isaiah 2:10, בִּמְעָרוֺת צֻרִים Isaiah 2:19, בְּנִקְרוֺת הַצּ׳ Isaiah 2:21, compare Exodus 33:21, 22 (JE); yielding honey (from its clefts) Psalm 81:17 (compare Deuteronomy 32:13; Dy PerlesAnal. 34 We read צוּף); as look-out Numbers 23:9 (JE), home of goats 1 Samuel 24:3 (Gi 1 Samuel 24:2), snow-covered Jeremiah 18:14; bearing (olives for) oil Deuteronomy 32:13 (חַלְמִישׁ צ׳), Job 29:6; resort of homeless Job 24:8, pierced by miners Job 28:10, compare perhaps נְחָלִים שִׁית בְּצ׳ אוֺפִיר Job 22:24 deposit (thy) gold in the rock of the wadys (most below צֹר pebble); as quarry, figurative of Abraham as ancestor of Israel Isaiah 51:1; place of security 1 Chronicles 11:15, הַמִּישׁוֺר צ׳ Jeremiah 21:13 (of city), figurative Psalm 27:5; Psalm 61:3; symbol of firmness Nahum 1:6; Job 14:18; Job 18:4; enduring material Job 19:24.
b. rock with flat surface 2 Samuel 21:10; Proverbs 30:19.
c. block of stone, boulder Judges 6:21; Judges 13:19 (as altar); compare צוּר מִכְשׁוֺל Isaiah 8:14 (|| נֶגֶף אֶבֶן).
d. rock with specific name, עוֺרֵב צ׳ Judges 7:25; Isaiah 10:26.
2.
a. figurative of God (33 times) as support and defence of his people (often || אֱלֹהִים, י׳, etc.), מָעֻזֵּךְ צ׳ Isaiah 17:10, מָעוֺז צ׳ Psalm 31:3, עֻזִּי צ׳ Psalm 62:8, מָעוֺן צ׳, Psalm 71:3, יְשֻׁעָתוֺ צ׳ Deuteronomy 32:15 compare 2 Samuel 22:47b (but strike out, see || Psalm 18:47), Psalm 89:27; Psalm 95:1, וִישׁוּעָתִי צ׳ Psalm 62:3; Psalm 62:7, מַחְסִי צ׳ Psalm 94:22; יִשְׂרָאֵל צ׳ Isaiah 30:29; 2 Samuel 23:3 (personified), צוּרִי Psalm 18:3; Psalm 18:47 = 2 Samuel 22:3, 47a, Psalm 19:15; Psalm 28:1; Psalm 92:16; Psalm 144:1, לְבָבִי צ׳ Psalm 73:26, צוּרֵנוּ Deuteronomy 32:31, צוּרָם Deuteronomy 32:30; Psalm 78:35; with בְּ essent. בְּיָהּ י׳ עוֺלָמִים צ׳ Isaiah 26:4 (compare Psalm 62:8; see ב I. 7 c); as proper name, of deity (the Rock Deuteronomy 32:4, 18 (יְלָֽדְךָ צ׳), Deuteronomy 32:37; Habakkuk 1:12, +(perhaps) Psalm 75:6 (read בַּצּוּד, see צַוָּאר; see also מְּדָהצוּר).
b. of a heathen god Deuteronomy 32:31, compare Isaiah 44:3, מִי צוּר מִבַּלְעֲדֵי א׳ 2 Samuel 22:32 || Psalm 18:32, compare 1 Samuel 2:2. — See also בֵּית צוּר and חֶלְקַת הַצֻּרִים. — [Psalm 89:44 [Psalm 89:43] see H6697 צֹד , Psalm 49:15 [Psalm 49:14]] see H6699 צוּרָה.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

17:6; 17:6; 33:21; 33:22

Numbers

23:9; 23:9

Deuteronomy

8:15; 8:15; 32:4; 32:13; 32:13; 32:15; 32:18; 32:30; 32:31; 32:31; 32:37

Judges

6:21; 7:25; 13:19

1 Samuel

2:2; 24:2; 24:2; 24:3; 24:3

2 Samuel

21:10; 22:3; 22:3; 22:32; 22:47; 22:47; 23:3

1 Chronicles

11:15

Job

14:18; 18:4; 19:24; 22:24; 24:8; 28:10; 28:10; 29:6; 29:6

Psalms

18:3; 18:32; 18:47; 18:47; 27:5; 28:1; 31:3; 49:14; 61:3; 62:3; 62:7; 62:8; 62:8; 71:3; 73:26; 75:6; 78:15; 78:20; 78:35; 89:27; 89:43; 94:22; 95:1; 105:41; 114:8; 144:1

Proverbs

30:19

Isaiah

2:10; 2:19; 2:21; 8:14; 10:26; 17:10; 26:4; 30:29; 44:3; 48:21; 51:1

Jeremiah

18:14; 21:13

Nahum

1:6

Habakkuk

1:12

H6697

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Strong's Number H6697 matches the Hebrew צוּר (ṣûr),
which occurs 78 times in 74 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 17:6–Psa 81:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:6 - Behold, I stand there before thou come, on the rock in Choreb, and thou shalt smite the rock, and water shall come out from it, and the people shall drink. And Moses did so before the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:21 - And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me: thou shalt stand upon the rock;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:22 - and when my glory shall pass by, then I will put thee into a hole of the rock; and I will cover thee over with my hand, until I shall have passed by.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 - For from the top of the mountains I shall see him, and from the hills I shall observe him: behold, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - who brought thee through that great and terrible wilderness, where is the biting serpent, and scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee a fountain of water out of the flinty rock:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:4 - As for God, his works are true, and all his ways are [fn]judgment: God is faithful, and there is no unrighteousness in him; just and holy is the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He brought them up on the strength of the land; he fed them with the fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:15 - So Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat, he became thick and broad: then he forsook the God that made him, and departed from God his Saviour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:18 - Thou hast forsaken God that begot thee, and forgotten God who feeds thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How [fn]should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:31 - For their gods are not as our God, but our enemies are void of understanding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:37 - and the Lord said, Where are their gods on whom they trusted?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - And about this time the Lord said to Joshua, Make thee stone knives of sharp stone, and sit down and circumcise the children of Israel the second time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3 - And Joshua made sharp knives of stone, and circumcised the children of Israel at the place called the “Hill of Foreskins.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:21 - And the angel of the Lord stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened bread; and fire came up out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened bread, and the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - And they took the princes of Madiam, even Oreb and Zeb; and they slew Oreb in Sur Oreb, and they slew Zeb in Jakephzeph; and they pursued Madiam, and brought the [fn]heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon from beyond Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:19 - And Manoë took a kid of the goats and its meat-offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord; and the angel wrought [fn]a distinct work, and Manoë and his wife were looking on.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2 - For there is none holy as the Lord, and there is none righteous as our God: there is none holy beside thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - (LXX 24:3) And he took with him three thousand men, chosen out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men in front of Saddæem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:10 - And Respha the daughter of Aia took sackcloth, and fixed it for herself on the rock in the beginning of barley harvest, until water dropped upon them out of heaven: and she did not suffer the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:3 - my God; he shall be to me my guard, I will trust in him: he is my protector, and the horn of my salvation, my helper, and my sure refuge; thou shalt save me from the unjust man.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:32 - Who is strong, but the Lord? and who will be a Creator except our God?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:47

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:47 - The Lord lives, and blessed be my guardian, and my God, [fn]my strong keeper, shall be exalted.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:3 - The God of Israel says, A watchman out of Israel spoke to me a parable: I said among men, How will ye strengthen the fear of the anointed?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:15 - And three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David, to the cave of Odollam, and the camp of the Philistines was in the giants' valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:18 - And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4 - Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would the earth under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:24 - with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:24 - Thou shalt lay up for thyself treasure in a heap on the rock; and Sophir shall be as the rock of the torrent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:8 - They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:10 - and he has interrupted the whirlpools of rivers, and mine eye has seen every precious thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:6 - when my ways were moistened with butter, and the mountains flowed for me with milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2 - (LXX 17:3) The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; he is my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:31 - (LXX 17:32) For who is God but the Lord? and who is a God except our God?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:46

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:46 - (LXX 17:47) The Lord lives; and blessed be my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:14 - (LXX 18:15) So shall the sayings of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing continually before thee, O Lord my helper, and my redeemer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:5 - (LXX 26:5) For in the day of mine afflictions he hid me in his tabernacle: he sheltered me in the secret of his tabernacle; he set me up on a rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:1 - (LXX 27:1) A Psalm of David. To thee, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent toward me: lest thou be silent toward me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:2 - (LXX 30:3) Incline thine ear to me; make haste to rescue me: be thou to me for a protecting God, and for a house of refuge to save me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 - (LXX 48:15) They have laid them as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:2 - (LXX 60:3) From the ends of the earth have I cried to thee, when my heart was in trouble: thou liftedst me up on a rock, thou didst guide me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:2 - (LXX 61:3) For he is my God and my Saviour; my helper, I shall not be moved [fn]very much.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:6 - (LXX 61:7) For he is my God and my Saviour; my helper, I shall not be moved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7 - (LXX 61:8) [fn]In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help, and my hope is in God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3 - (LXX 70:3) Be to me a protecting God, and a strong hold to save me: for thou art my fortress and my refuge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:26 - (LXX 72:26) My heart and my flesh have failed: but God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15 - (LXX 77:15) He clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:20 - (LXX 77:20) Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed, and the torrents ran abundantly; will he be able also to give bread, or prepare a table for his people?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:35 - (LXX 77:35) And they remembered that God was their helper, and the most high God was their redeemer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:16 - (LXX 80:17) And he fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.

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