tseror · bundle, pouch

What it means

tseror (צְרוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bundle, pouch”.

Bundle, small bag where money is kept; something tied up.

How to say it

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.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A pouch for money or valuables.
2. A very small stone, like a bit of gravel.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• bag ×4
• bundle ×2
• pebble ×2
• Zeror ×1
• bundles ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Amos×1
• Haggai×1

• Genesis 42:35

  As they were emptying their sacks, look, each man’s bundle of silver was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of silver, they were afraid.

• 1 Samuel 9:1

  There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, son of a Benjaminite, a mighty man of worth.

• 1 Samuel 25:29

  Though a man has risen to pursue you and to seek your life, yet the life of my lord will be bound in the bundle of the living with YHWH your Elohim; but the lives of your enemies he will sling out from within the hollow of the sling.

• 2 Samuel 17:13

  And if he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it to the wadi, until not even a pebble is found there.”

• Job 14:17

  Sealed up in a bag would be my transgression, and you would plaster over my iniquity.

• Proverbs 7:20

  The bag of money he took in his hand; on the day of the full moon he will come home.”

• Song of Songs 1:13

  A little bag of myrrh is my beloved to me; between my breasts he spends the night.

• Amos 9:9

  For look, I am commanding, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble falls to the ground.

• Haggai 1:6

  You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, and there is no satisfaction; you drink, and there is no drunkenness; you clothe yourselves, and there is no warmth for anyone; and the one who earns wages earns wages for a bag with holes.

And 1 more times.