צוּר
tsûwr · tsoor
to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind (up), cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags.
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
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- 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 fasten and establish › the head, the highest
To pursue the straight path that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צוּר 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
38 occurrences · 38 OT · 0 NT · 30 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and besieged8 · 24%
- and they besieged2 · 6%
- unto thine adversaries1 · 3%
- and fashioned1 · 3%
- unto me, distress1 · 3%
- distress1 · 3%
- and bind up1 · 3%
- against thee, then thou shalt besiege1 · 3%
- when thou shalt besiege1 · 3%
- and, behold, they fortify1 · 3%
- to besiege1 · 3%
- for he cast1 · 3%
- laid siege1 · 3%
- with him, and they besieged1 · 3%
- him, and bound1 · 3%
- and, behold, they besieged1 · 3%
- and they put up in bags1 · 3%
- did besiege1 · 3%
- unto him, and distressed1 · 3%
- that would assault1 · 3%
- thou hast beset1 · 3%
- we will inclose1 · 3%
- besiege1 · 3%
- and will lay siege1 · 3%
- which besiege1 · 3%
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.