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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 Box Exo 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:6 - Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horev. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moshe did so in the sight of the Zakenim of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:21 - The LORD also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:22 - It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 - For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:4 - The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He made him ride on the high places of the eretz, He ate the increase of the field; He made him to suck honey out of the rock, Oil out of the flinty rock;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:15 - But Yeshurun grew fat, and kicked: You have grown fat, you are grown thick, you are become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, Lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:18 - Of the Rock that became your father, you are unmindful, Have forgotten God who gave you birth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How should one chase a thousand, Two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, The LORD had delivered them up?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:31 - For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:37 - He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - At that time the LORD said to Yehoshua, Make you flint knives, and circumcise again the children of Yisra'el the second time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3 - Yehoshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Yisra'el at the hill of `Aralot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:21 - Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - They took the two princes of Midyan, `Orev and Ze'ev; and they killed `Orev at the rock of `Orev, and Ze'ev they killed at the winepress of Ze'ev, and pursued Midyan: and they brought the heads of `Orev and Ze'ev to Gid`on beyond the Yarden.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:19 - So Manoach took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD: and the angel did wondrously, and Manoach and his wife looked on.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2 - There is none holy as the LORD; For there is none besides you, Neither is there any rock like our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - Then Sha'ul took three thousand chosen men out of all Yisra'el, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:10 - Ritzpah the daughter of Ayah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:3 - God, my rock, in him will I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge; My savior, you save me from violence.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:32 - For who is God, save the LORD? Who is a rock, save our God?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:47

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:47 - The LORD lives; Blessed be my rock; Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:3 - The God of Yisra'el said, The Rock of Yisra'el spoke to me: One who rules over men righteously, Who rules in the fear of God,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:15 - Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of `Adullam; and the host of the Pelishtim were encamped in the valley of Refa'im.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:18 - "But the mountain falling comes to nothing; The rock is removed out of its place;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4 - You who tear yourself in your anger, Shall the eretz be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:24 - That with an iron pen and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:24 - Lay your treasure in the dust, The gold of Ofir among the stones of the brooks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:8 - They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:10 - He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:6 - When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured out streams of oil for me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2 - The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:31 - For who is God, except the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:46

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:46 - The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:14 - Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in your sight, LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:5 - For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tent he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:1 - By David. To you, LORD, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; Lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:2 - Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, A house of defense to save me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 - They are appointed as a flock for She'ol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in She'ol, Far from their mansion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 61:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:2 - From the end of the eretz, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 62:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:2 - He alone is my rock and my yeshu`ah, my fortress -- I will never be greatly shaken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 62:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:6 - He alone is my rock and my yeshu`ah, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 62:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7 - With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3 - Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, For you are my rock and my fortress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:26 - My flesh and my heart fails, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15 - He split rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:20 - Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, Streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:35 - They remembered that God was their rock, The El `Elyon their redeemer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 81:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:16 - But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock."

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