צֹהַר
tsôhar · tso'-har
a light (i.e. window); dual double light, i.e. noon
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6671 (צָהַר);
a light (i.e. window); dual double light, i.e. noon
- a light (i.e. window)
- dual double light, i.e. noon
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: midday, noon(-day, -tide), window.
Letters
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › to reveal, behold › the head, the highest
To pursue the straight path that works to reveal, behold of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צֹהַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
24 occurrences · 24 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- at noon6 · 25%
- at noonday4 · 17%
- a window1 · 4%
- with me at noon1 · 4%
- even until noon1 · 4%
- and it came to pass at noon1 · 4%
- and it came to pass, when midday1 · 4%
- till noon1 · 4%
- in the noonday1 · 4%
- than the noonday1 · 4%
- as the noonday1 · 4%
- and at noon1 · 4%
- of the noonday1 · 4%
- be as the noonday1 · 4%
- at noontide1 · 4%
- at the noon day1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.