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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

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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 boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre. Then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahalab,[fn] Achzib,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:11 - And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7 - and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:1 - [fn] Now 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 always loved David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:13 - And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:11 - and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:12 - But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 14:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:1 - And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also masons and carpenters to build a house for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:3 - And Solomon sent word to Hiram the king of Tyre: “As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:11 - Then Hiram the king of Tyre answered in a letter that he sent to Solomon, “Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you king over them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 45:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:12 - The people[fn] of Tyre will seek your favor with gifts,
the richest of the people.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 83:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:7 - Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 87:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4 - Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon;
behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush[fn]—
“This one was born there,” they say.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:1 - The oracle concerning Tyre.
Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor!
From the land of Cyprus[fn]
it is revealed to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:5 - When the report comes to Egypt,
they will be in anguish[fn] over the report about Tyre.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:8 - Who has purposed this
against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
whose traders were the honored of the earth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:15 - In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days[fn] of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:17 - At the end of seventy years, the LORD will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world 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 coastland across the sea;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:3 - Send word[fn] to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have 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,
to cut off from Tyre and Sidon
every helper that remains.
For the LORD is destroying the Philistines,
the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - “Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid 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 will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:7 - “For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar[fn] king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:15 - “Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:2 - “Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:3 - and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances 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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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:8 - The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad
were your rowers;
your skilled men, O Tyre, were in you;
they were your pilots.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:32 - In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you
and lament over you:
‘Who is like Tyre,
like one 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 proud,
and you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods,
in the heart of the seas,’
yet you are but a man, and no god,
though you make your heart like the heart of a god—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:12 - “Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD:
“You were the signet of perfection,[fn]
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:18 - “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:13 - Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm[fn] planted in a meadow;
but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:4 - “What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:9 - Thus says the LORD:
“For three transgressions of Tyre,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,
and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:10 - So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre,
and it shall devour her strongholds.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:2 - and on Hamath also, which borders on it,
Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 - Tyre has built herself a rampart
and heaped up silver like dust,
and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
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