צֹר
Tsôr · tsore
Tsor, a place in Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: or צוֹר; the same as H6864 (צֹר); a rock;
Tsor, a place in Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Tyre, Tyrus.
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
- 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 head, the highest
To pursue the straight path of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צֹר 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
42 occurrences · 42 OT · 0 NT · 27 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of tyre11 · 26%
- of tyrus7 · 17%
- tyre2 · 5%
- for tyrus2 · 5%
- out of tyre1 · 2%
- from tyre1 · 2%
- and tyre1 · 2%
- against tyre1 · 2%
- that tyre1 · 2%
- shall tyre1 · 2%
- from tyrus1 · 2%
- because that tyrus1 · 2%
- behold, i am against thee, o tyrus1 · 2%
- upon tyrus1 · 2%
- to tyrus1 · 2%
- unto tyrus1 · 2%
- o tyrus1 · 2%
- men, o tyrus1 · 2%
- over thee, saying, what city is like tyrus1 · 2%
- against tyrus1 · 2%
- tyrus1 · 2%
- yea, and what have ye to do with me, o tyre1 · 2%
- thereby; tyrus1 · 2%
- and tyrus1 · 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.