צִיר
tsîyr · tseer
a hinge (as pressed in turning); also a throe (as a phys. or mental pressure); also a herald or erranddoer (as constrained by the principal)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6696 (צוּר);
a hinge (as pressed in turning); also a throe (as a phys. or mental pressure); also a herald or erranddoer (as constrained by the principal)
- a hinge (as pressed in turning)
- also, a throe (as a phys. or mental pressure)
- also, a herald or erranddoer (as constrained by the principal)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: ambassador, hinge, messenger, pain, pang, sorrow. Compare H6736 (צִיר).
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- 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 › the hand that works › the head, the highest
To pursue the straight path of the hand that works of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צִיר 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
12 occurrences · 12 OT · 0 NT · 11 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- pangs2 · 17%
- and an ambassador2 · 17%
- for her pains1 · 8%
- ambassador1 · 8%
- messenger1 · 8%
- upon his hinges1 · 8%
- ambassadors1 · 8%
- upon me, as the pangs1 · 8%
- thy messengers1 · 8%
- my sorrows1 · 8%
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.