צֹרִי
Tsôrîy · tso-ree'
a Tsorite or inhabitant of Tsor (i.e. Syrian)
Lexicon
Derivation: patrial from H6865 (צֹר);
a Tsorite or inhabitant of Tsor (i.e. Syrian)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (man) of Tyre.
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › the head, the highest › the hand that works
To pursue the straight path of the head, the highest of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צֹרִי 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
5 occurrences · 5 OT · 0 NT · 5 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of tyre2 · 40%
- and they of tyre1 · 20%
- and to them of tyre1 · 20%
- men of tyre1 · 20%
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.