Lexical Summary Tsor: a Phoenician city Original Word: צֹרTransliteration: Tsor Phonetic Spelling: (tsore) Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a Phoenician city Meaning: Tyre -- a Phoenician city Strong's Concordance Tyre, Tyrus Or Tsowr {tsore}; the same as tsor; a rock; Tsor, a place in Palestine -- Tyre, Tyrus. see HEBREW tsor Brown-Driver-Briggs H6865. Tsor I. צוֺר צֹר, proper name, of a location Τυρος: Tyre, famous Phoenician city (Phoenician צר; Assyrian ‚urru, so Tel Amarna; Egyptian Da-(ï)ra, Da-ru WMMAs.u.Eur.185); — צֹר 2 Samuel 24:7 32t., צוֺר 1 Kings 5:15 8t. (Gi); — city of Hiram, friend of David and Solomon 2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:15; 9:11-12, 1 Chronicles 14:1; 2 Chronicles 2:2; 2:10; of artif. Hiram 1 Kings 7:13; בַּתצֹֿר Psalm 45:13 of city personified (another view in Che); ׳צ also in name of Phoenician fotress, ׳מִבְצַרצֿ 2 Samuel 24:7, מ ׳עִיר ׳צ Joshua 19:29 (P); threatened by prophets Amos 1:9-10, and (with especially reference to commercial greatness) Isaiah 23:1 (צֹר מַשָׂא), 23:5; 23:8; 23:15; 23:15; 23:17; Jeremiah 25:22 (מַלְכֵיצֹֿר), 27:3 (צֹר מֶלֶךְ), 47:4; Ezekiel 26:2-3, 4, 7, 15; 27:2-3,(twice in verse); 27:8, 32; 28:2 (צֹר נְגִיד), 28:12 (צוֺר מֶלֶךְ); besieged by Nebuch. 29:18 (twice in verse); compare Zechariah 9:2-3, Joel 4:4; Psalm 83:8 (צ ׳ישְׁבֵי); of Tyrians as proselytes 87:4 (predict.); — לְצוֺר Hosea 9:13 is probably corrupt, read לָצוֺד or ᵐ5 לָצַיִד We GASm, compare Now. — ׳צ often + צִידוֺן 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: — |
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