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צֹר

tsor · Tyre

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6865 · appears 42 times in the Bible

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What it means

tsor (צֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Tyre”.

A great Phoenician city on the coast, north of Israel. The name means "rock."

How to say it

tsor

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
Approximate location. A “?” means it is not known for sure where it was.

  • 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).

    2 Samuel 5:111 Kings 5:1Ezekiel 27:2Matthew 11:21

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Where it appears

  • Joshua 19:29

    and the border turned back to Ramah, and as far as the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned back to Hosah, and its ends were at the sea, by the region of Achzib;

  • 2 Samuel 5:11

    Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and craftsmen in wood and craftsmen in wall stone, and they built a house for David.

  • 2 Samuel 24:7

    They came to the fortified city of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivite and the Canaanite, and they went out to the Negev of Judah, to Beersheba.

  • 1 Kings 5:1

    And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, for he had heard that they had anointed him as king in place of his father; for Hiram had loved David all the days.

  • 1 Kings 7:13

    And King Solomon sent and took Hiram from Tyre.

  • 1 Kings 9:11

    — Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with timber of cedar and timber of cypress and with gold, according to all his pleasure — that then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

  • 1 Kings 9:12

    And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, and they were not right in his eyes.

  • 1 Chronicles 14:1

    Huram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and craftsmen in wall and craftsmen in wood, to build him a house.

  • 2 Chronicles 2:3

    Solomon sent to Huram, king of Tyre, saying, “Do with me as you did with David my father, when you sent him cedars to build himself a house to live in.

  • 2 Chronicles 2:11

    Huram, king of Tyre, said in writing, and sent it to Solomon: “Because of the love of YHWH for his people he has made you king over them.”

  • Psalms 45:12

    And the daughter of Tyre with a gift, the rich of the people will seek your favor.

  • Psalms 83:7

    Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

  • Psalms 87:4

    I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon among those who know me; look, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush: “This one was born there.”

  • Isaiah 23:1

    The burden of Tyre. Wail, ships of Tarshish, for it is devastated, without house, without entrance; from the land of Kittim it was revealed to them.

  • Isaiah 23:5

    When the report comes to Egypt, they will writhe at the report of Tyre.

  • Isaiah 23:8

    Who has planned this against Tyre, the one who crowned, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?

  • Isaiah 23:15

    And it will happen, on that day, that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute:

  • Isaiah 23:17

    And it will happen, at the end of seventy years, that YHWH will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages, and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground.

  • Jeremiah 25:22

    and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland that is beyond the sea;

  • Jeremiah 27:3

    and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;

  • Jeremiah 47:4

    because of the day that is coming to devastate all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and from Sidon every survivor who helps; for YHWH is devastating the Philistines, the remnant of the island of Caphtor.

  • Ezekiel 26:2

    “Son of man, because Tyre has said about Jerusalem, ‘Aha! Broken are the doors of the peoples; it has turned to me; I will be filled, she is ruined,’

  • Ezekiel 26:3

    therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring up against you many nations, as the sea brings up its waves.

  • Ezekiel 26:4

    And they will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down her towers; and I will scrape her dust from her and make her a bare rock.

  • Ezekiel 26:7

    For thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am bringing against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the north, king of kings, with horses and with chariots and with horsemen, and an assembly and a numerous people.

  • Ezekiel 26:15

    Thus says Adonai YHWH to Tyre: Will not the coastlands quake at the noise of your fall, when the mortally wounded groan, when the killing is carried out in your midst?

  • Ezekiel 27:2

    “And you, son of man, raise over Tyre a dirge,

  • Ezekiel 27:3

    and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances of the sea, trader of the peoples to many coastlands: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Tyre, you have said, “I am perfection of beauty.”

  • Ezekiel 27:8

    The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your wise men, Tyre, were in you; they were your pilots.

  • Ezekiel 27:32

    And they will raise over you, in their wailing, a dirge, and chant a lament over you: “Who is like Tyre, like the silenced one in the midst of the sea?”

  • Ezekiel 28:2

    “Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Because your heart is lifted up and you have said, “I am El; in the seat of Elohim I sit in the heart of the seas,” yet you are a human being and not El, and you have set your heart like the heart of Elohim;

  • Ezekiel 28:12

    “Son of man, raise a dirge over the king of Tyre, and say to him: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: You were the seal of proportion, full of wisdom and perfection of beauty.

  • Ezekiel 29:18

    “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army perform a great labor against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; and there was no wage for him or for his army from Tyre for the labor that he labored against her.

  • Hosea 9:13

    Ephraim, as I have seen, was like Tyre, planted in a meadow; but Ephraim is to bring out his children to the killer.

  • Joel 3:4

    And also, what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back a recompense? And if you are repaying me, swiftly, speedily I will return your recompense on your head.

  • Amos 1:9

    Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke it; because they handed over a whole captive people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brothers.

  • Amos 1:10

    And I will send fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will devour her citadels.

  • Zechariah 9:2

    And also Hamath, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, though she is very wise.

  • Zechariah 9:3

    And Tyre built a bulwark for herself, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mud of the streets.

And 3 more times.