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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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)

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:6 -

“I am going to stand there in front of you on the rock at Horeb; when you hit the rock, water will come out of it and the people will drink.” Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:21 -

The LORD said, “Here is a place near me. You are to stand on the rock,

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:22 -

“and when my glory passes by, I will put you in the crevice of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 -

I see them from the top of rocky cliffs,

and I watch them from the hills.

There is a people living alone;

it does not consider itself among the nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 -

“He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous[fn] snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint rock for you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:4 -

The Rock ​— ​his work is perfect;

all his ways are just.

A faithful God, without bias,

he is righteous and true.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 -

He made him ride on the heights of the land

and eat the produce of the field.

He nourished him with honey from the rock

and oil from flinty rock,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:15 -

Then[fn] Jeshurun[fn] became fat and rebelled —

you became fat, bloated, and gorged.

He abandoned the God who made him

and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:18 -

You ignored the Rock who gave you birth;

you forgot the God who gave birth to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 -

How could one pursue a thousand,

or two put ten thousand to flight,

unless their Rock had sold them,

unless the LORD had given them up?

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:31 -

But their “rock” is not like our Rock,

as even our enemies concede.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:37 -

He will say, “Where are their gods,

the ‘rock’ they found refuge in?

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 -

At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelite men again.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3 -

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelite men at Gibeath-haaraloth.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:21 -

The angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. Fire came up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 -

They captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian; they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb, while they were pursuing the Midianites. They brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:19 -

Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD, who did something miraculous[fn] while Manoah and his wife were watching.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2 -

There is no one holy like the LORD.

There is no one besides you!

And there is no rock like our God.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 -

So Saul took three thousand of Israel’s fit young men and went to look for David and his men in front of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:10 -

Rizpah, Aiah’s daughter, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock from the beginning of the harvest[fn] until the rain poured down from heaven on the bodies. She kept the birds of the sky from them by day and the wild animals by night.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:3 -

my God,[fn] my rock where I seek refuge.

My shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold, my refuge,

and my Savior, you save me from violence.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:32 -

For who is God besides the LORD?

And who is a rock? Only our God.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:47 -

The LORD lives ​— ​blessed be my rock!

God, the rock of my salvation, is exalted.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:3 -

The God of Israel spoke;

the Rock of Israel said to me,

“The one who rules the people with justice,

who rules in the fear of God,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:15 -

Three of the thirty chief men went down to David, to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while the Philistine army was encamped in Rephaim Valley.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:18 -

But as a mountain collapses and crumbles

and a rock is dislodged from its place,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4 -

You who tear yourself in anger[fn] —

should the earth be abandoned on your account,

or a rock be removed from its place?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:24 -

or were inscribed in stone forever

by an iron stylus and lead!

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:24 -

and consign your gold to the dust,

the gold of Ophir to the stones in the wadis,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:8 -

Drenched by mountain rains,

they huddle against[fn] the rocks, shelterless.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:10 -

He cuts out channels in the rocks,

and his eyes spot every treasure.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:6 -

when my feet were bathed in curds

and the rock poured out streams of oil for me!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2 -

The LORD is my rock,

my fortress, and my deliverer,

my God, my rock where I seek refuge,

my shield and the horn of my salvation,

my stronghold.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:31 -

For who is God besides the LORD?

And who is a rock? Only our God.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:46 -

The LORD lives ​— ​blessed be my rock!

The God of my salvation is exalted.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:14 -

May the words of my mouth

and the meditation of my heart

be acceptable to you,

LORD, my rock and my Redeemer.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:5 -

For he will conceal me in his shelter

in the day of adversity;

he will hide me under the cover of his tent;

he will set me high on a rock.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:1 -

LORD, I call to you;

my rock, do not be deaf to me.

If you remain silent to me,

I will be like those going down to the Pit.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:2 -

Listen closely to me; rescue me quickly.

Be a rock of refuge for me,

a mountain fortress to save me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 -

Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;

Death will shepherd them.

The upright will rule over them in the morning,

and their form will waste away in Sheol,[fn]

far from their lofty abode.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:2 -

I call to you from the ends of the earth

when my heart is without strength.

Lead me to a rock that is high above me,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:2 -

He alone is my rock and my salvation,

my stronghold; I will never be shaken.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:6 -

He alone is my rock and my salvation,

my stronghold; I will not be shaken.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7 -

My salvation and glory depend on God, my strong rock.

My refuge is in God.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3 -

Be a rock of refuge for me,

where I can always go.

Give the command to save me,

for you are my rock and fortress.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:26 -

My flesh and my heart may fail,

but God is the strength[fn] of my heart,

my portion forever.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15 -

He split rocks in the wilderness

and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:20 -

“Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out;

torrents overflowed.

But can he also provide bread

or furnish meat for his people? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:35 -

They remembered that God was their rock,

the Most High God, their Redeemer.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:16 -

But he would feed Israel[fn] with the best wheat.

“I would satisfy you with honey from the rock.”


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