tsohar · window, noon

What it means

tsohar (צֹהַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “window, noon”.

An opening for light, such as the one in the ark (its exact form is not known). In the dual, the same word means "noon".

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. When the sun is highest; or full light.
2. A gap for light in the ark.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• noon ×19
• noonday ×3
• midday ×1
• opening ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×3
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Amos×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 6:16

  An opening you shall make for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from above; and the door of the ark you shall put in its side; with lower, second, and third decks you shall make it.

• Genesis 43:16

  When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the one over his house, “Bring the men into the house, slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon.”

• Genesis 43:25

  They prepared the gift until Joseph came at noon, for they had heard that they would eat bread there.

• Deuteronomy 28:29

  And you will be groping at noon, as the blind man gropes in the darkness, and you will not prosper your ways; and you will be only oppressed and robbed all the days, and there will be no one to save you.

• 2 Samuel 4:5

  The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out and came in the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, as he was lying down for the midday rest.

• 1 Kings 18:26

  They took the bull that he gave them, and prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us!” But there was no voice, and no one answering. And they limped around the altar that had been made.

• 1 Kings 18:27

  And it happened at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, “Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god! Perhaps he is musing, or he has stepped aside, or he is on a journey; perhaps he is asleep and must wake up.”

• 1 Kings 18:29

  And it happened, when noon had passed, that they prophesied until the time of offering the grain offering; but there was no voice, and no one answering, and no attention.

• 1 Kings 20:16

  They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking and drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings helping him.

• 2 Kings 4:20

  He carried him and brought him to his mother, and he sat on her knees until noon, and he died.

• Job 5:14

  By day they meet darkness, and as at night they grope at noon.

• Job 11:17

  And above noonday your lifetime will rise; the darkness will be like the morning.

• Psalms 37:6

  And he will bring out like the light your righteousness, and your justice like the noonday.

• Psalms 55:17

  Evening and morning and noon I will complain and moan, and he will hear my voice.

• Psalms 91:6

  nor the pestilence that walks in the gloom, nor the destruction that ravages at noon.

• Song of Songs 1:7

  Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where do you pasture your flock, where do you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?

• Isaiah 16:3

  Bring counsel, make a decision; make your shade like the night in the middle of noon; hide the banished, do not expose the wanderer.

• Isaiah 58:10

  and if you offer your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your gloom will be like noon.

• Isaiah 59:10

  We grope like the blind for the wall, and like those without eyes we grope; we stumble at noon as in the twilight; among the robust we are like the dead.

• Jeremiah 6:4

  “Consecrate war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.” “Woe to us, for the day is declining, for the shadows of evening are lengthening.”

• Jeremiah 15:8

  Their widows became more numerous before me than the sand of the seas; I brought upon them, upon the mother of the young man, a destroyer at noonday; I made fall upon her suddenly anguish and terrors.

• Jeremiah 20:16

  And let that man be like the cities that YHWH overthrew and did not relent; and let him hear a cry in the morning and a war cry at the time of noon,

• Amos 8:9

  And it will happen on that day, declares Adonai YHWH, that I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight.

• Zephaniah 2:4

  For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon a desolation; Ashdod, at noon they will drive her out, and Ekron will be uprooted.