Τύρος
Tyros · Tyre
Greek word · Strong’s number G5184 · appears 11 times in the Bible
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Tyros (Τύρος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “Tyre”.
A Phoenician city on the coast north of Israel.
How to say it
Ty·ros
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
The place
Tyre
Today: Tyre (Sour), Lebanon
A port city on the Mediterranean coast, in present-day Lebanon, about 25 miles (40 km) north of Israel's present border.
Its king Hiram helped David and Solomon with timber and workers (1 Kgs 5:1). Ezekiel announced its fall (Ezek 27:2), and Jesus mentioned it when rebuking towns that did not change their minds (Matt 11:21).
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Where it appears
- Matthew 11:21
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed their minds long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
- Matthew 11:22
But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
- Matthew 15:21
And going out from there, Jesus withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.
- Mark 3:8
and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and beyond the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing all that he was doing, came to him.
- Mark 7:24
And getting up from there, he went away into the region of Tyre. And he entered into a house and wanted no one to know it, and he could not escape notice.
- Mark 7:31
And again going out from the region of Tyre, he came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of the Decapolis.
- Luke 6:17
And coming down with them, he stood on a level place, and there was a large crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coast of Tyre and Sidon,
- Luke 10:13
Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed their minds long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
- Luke 10:14
But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.
- Acts 21:3
And when we had sighted Cyprus and left it on the left, we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was unloading its cargo.
- Acts 21:7
And we, having completed the voyage from Tyre, arrived at Ptolemais, and having greeted the brothers, we stayed one day with them.