צוּר
tsûwr · tsoor
properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
Lexicon
Derivation: or צֻר; from H6696 (צוּר);
properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
- properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed)
- generally, a rock or boulder
- figuratively, a refuge
- also, an edge (as precipitous)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: edge, [idiom] (mighty) God (one), rock, [idiom] sharp, stone, [idiom] strength, [idiom] strong. See also H1049 (בֵּית צוּר).
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
78 occurrences · 78 OT · 0 NT · 54 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the rock9 · 17%
- of the rock4 · 8%
- out of the rock4 · 8%
- upon a rock3 · 6%
- of the rocks3 · 6%
- and the rock3 · 6%
- my strength3 · 6%
- rock2 · 4%
- their rock2 · 4%
- the rocks2 · 4%
- be my rock2 · 4%
- to the rock2 · 4%
- he only is my rock2 · 4%
- thee there upon the rock1 · 2%
- he is the rock1 · 2%
- for their rock1 · 2%
- is not as our rock1 · 2%
- thee sharp1 · 2%
- him sharp1 · 2%
- upon the rock1 · 2%
- it upon a rock1 · 2%
- thee: neither is there any rock1 · 2%
- it for her upon the rock1 · 2%
- of my rock1 · 2%
- and who is a rock1 · 2%
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.