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title: צֹר — Tyre · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צֹר (6865), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 42 times: Tyre. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. Tyre. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צֹר

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«צֹר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Tyre** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 42 times · **Key:** 6865 · **BDB:** צֹר

### Glosses

Tyre (19); of.Tyre (19); O.Tyre (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Tyre [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6865/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. Tyre [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6865/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Τυρος: Tyre, famous Phoenician city (Ph. צר; Assyrian Ṣurru, so TelAm; Egyptian Ḏa-(ï̥)rạ, Ḏa-ru̥ WMMAs. u. Eur. 185);—צֹר 2 S 24:7 + 32 times, צוֹר 1 K 5:15 + 8 times (Gi);—city of Hiram, friend of David and Sol. 2 S 5:11; 1 K 5:15; 9:11, 12; 1 Ch 14:1; 2 Ch 2:2, 10; of artif. Hiram 1 K 7:13; בַּת־צֹר ψ 45:13 of city personif. (another view in Che); צ׳ also in name of Ph. fortress, מִבְצַר־צ׳ 2 S 24:7, עִיר מ׳ צ׳ Jos 19:29 (P); threatened by proph. Am 1:9, 10 and (with especially ref. to commercial greatness) Is 23:1 (מַשָּׂא צֹר), v 5, 8, 15(×2), 17 Je 25:22 (מַלְכֵי־צֹר), 27:3 (מֶלֶךְ צֹר), 47:4 Ez 26:2, 3, 4, 7, 15; 27:2, 3(×2), 8, 32; 28:2 (נְגִיד צֹר), v 12 (מֶלֶךְ צוֹר); besieged by Nebuch. 29:18, 18; cf. Zc 9:2, 3; Jo 4:4 ψ 83:8 (ישְׁבֵי צ׳); of Tyrians as proselytes ψ 87:4 (predict.);—לְצוֹר Ho 9:13 is prob. corrupt, read לָצוּד or לָצַיִד 𝔊 We GASm, cf. Now.—צ׳ often + צִידוֹן q.v.;—see, on Tyre, PietschmPhön. 60 ff. RobBR ii. 461 ff. de LuynesVoyage à la Mer Morte (1874) i. 28 ff., and Pl. xiii–xviii BdPal. 3 (1898), 307 ff.—ii. צֹר (flint, knife) v. III. צרר.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 38 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (31 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (27 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צֹר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6865/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 27:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.2/)

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וְאַתָּ֣ה בֶן־אָדָ֔ם שָׂ֥א עַל־צֹ֖ר קִינָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you O.son of.humankind take.up on Tyre a.lamentation

*JPS 1917:* 'And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,

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[Psalms 83:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.8/)

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גְּבָ֣ל וְ֭עַמּוֹן וַעֲמָלֵ֑ק פְּ֝לֶ֗שֶׁת עִם־יֹ֥שְׁבֵי צֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* Gebal and Ammon and Amalek Philistia with the.inhabitants of.Tyre

*JPS 1917:* Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

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