tsir · pang, hinge, envoy

What it means

tsir (צִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pang, hinge, envoy”.

Pang of childbirth. The same word names the hinge of a door and, elsewhere, an envoy.

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 messenger sent to another people.
2. Sharp agony, like labor.
3. The hinge of the door.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• envoy ×4
• pangs ×4
• envoys ×1
• hinge ×1
• messengers ×1
• pains ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×1
• Daniel×1
• Obadiah×1

• 1 Samuel 4:19

  Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And she heard the news that the ark of Elohim had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, and she crouched down and gave birth, for her pains came over her.

• Proverbs 13:17

  A wicked messenger falls into evil, but a faithful envoy is healing.

• Proverbs 25:13

  Like the coolness of snow in a day of harvest is a faithful envoy to those who send him; and he brings back the soul of his masters.

• Proverbs 26:14

  The door turns on its hinge, and the sluggard on his bed.

• Isaiah 13:8

  And they will be terrified; pangs and pains will seize them; like a woman giving birth they will writhe; each at his neighbor will stare in amazement; faces of flames are their faces.

• Isaiah 18:2

  which sends envoys by the sea, and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared from that time and onward, a nation of strength, strength, and of trampling, whose land the rivers divide.

• Isaiah 21:3

  Therefore my loins are filled with trembling; pangs have seized me like the pangs of a woman giving birth; I am bent over at hearing, I am terrified at seeing.

• Isaiah 57:9

  And you went to the king with oil, and multiplied your perfumes; and you sent your messengers far away, and lowered yourself down to Sheol.

• Jeremiah 49:14

  A report I have heard from YHWH, and an envoy is sent among the nations: “Gather yourselves and come against her, and rise up for battle!”

• Daniel 10:16

  And look, one with the likeness of human beings was touching my lips, and I opened my mouth and spoke and said to the one standing before me, “My lord, because of the vision my pangs have turned upon me, and I have not retained strength.

• Obadiah 1:1

  The vision of Obadiah. Thus says Adonai YHWH concerning Edom: A report we have heard from YHWH, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: “Rise up, and let us rise against her for battle!”

And 1 more times.