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title: צוּר — shew hostility to · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צוּר (lemma:צוּר), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: shew hostility to. BDB 1906: vb. shew hostility to, treat as foe. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צוּר

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«צוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **shew hostility to** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** lemma:צוּר · **BDB:** צוּר²

### Glosses

as.a.foe (1); form (1); he.fashioned (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

shew hostility to [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5d5_5bc_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. shew hostility to, treat as foe [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5d5_5bc_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shew hostility to, treat as foe (c. acc. pers.) (akin to II. צרר, to which SS assign the forms, but cf. Arabic ضَارَ (ى) act unjustly, also defraud; Syriac ܥܝܳܪܬܳܐ, rival wife);— Pf. 1 s. וְצַרְתִּ֫י אֶת־צֹרֲרֶיךָ Ex 23:22 (subj. י׳; ‖ וְאָיַבְתִּ֫י אֶת־אֹיְבֶיךָ); Impf. 2 ms. אַל־תָּ֫צַר אֶת־מוֹאָב Dt 2:9; 2 mpl. sf. אַל־תְּצֻרֵם v 19; Pt. הַצָּרִים אוֹתָם Est 8:11.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (31 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (27 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/lemma_3a_5e6_5d5_5bc_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 22:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.24/)

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וְשִׁית־עַל־עָפָ֥ר בָּ֑צֶר וּבְצ֖וּר נְחָלִ֣ים אוֹפִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and put on \[the\].dust gold and among.\[the\] rock\[s\] of.wadis gold.of.Ophir

*JPS 1917:* And lay thy treasure in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks;

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[1 Kings 7:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.15/)

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וַיָּ֛צַר אֶת־שְׁנֵ֥י הָעַמּוּדִ֖ים נְחֹ֑שֶׁת שְׁמֹנֶ֨ה עֶשְׂרֵ֜ה אַמָּ֗ה קוֹמַת֙ הָעַמּ֣וּד הָאֶחָ֔ד וְחוּט֙ שְׁתֵּים־עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה אַמָּ֔ה יָסֹ֖ב אֶת־הָעַמּ֥וּד הַשֵּׁנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.fashioned (et) the.two the pillars bronze \[was\].eight- teen cubit\[s\] the.height of the.pillar (the) one and a.line of.two.plus ten cubit\[s\] it.went.round (et) the pillar (the) second

*JPS 1917:* Thus he fashioned the two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high each; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it about; and so the other pillar.

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