צֹר
tsôr · H6864 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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flint
An extremely hard type of stone that leaves sharp edges when fractured, which can be used as a knife and is associated with an inflexible attitude
ExamplesEzekiel 3:9 “Like emery harder than flint I have made your forehead. Do not be afraid of them or be dismayed before them, since they are a rebellious house.”
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a flint knife
A knife made out of flint, mainly used for circumcision
ExamplesExodus 4:25 So Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and threw it at Moses’ feet; and she said, “You are indeed a groom of blood to me!”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חֶרֶבsword 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 1
- שׁוּבto return, to turn back 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- חַלָּמִישׁ challâmîysh · H2496 · flint
- The target lexeme and חַלָּמִישׁ both denote flint or a sharp stone, functioning as near-synonyms for the same material.
Semantic domains 7 entries
- Little002001001038
- צֹר (tsôr, H6864) is a common noun meaning "flint" (a hard stone). The quotation "Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin" at Exodus 4:25 shows this sense, which does not independently attest the "Little" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with צַר (tsar, H6862) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
- Lax002001003012
- צֹר (tsôr, H6864) is a common noun meaning "flint" (a hard stone). The quotation "Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin" at Exodus 4:25 shows this sense, which does not independently attest the "Lax" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with צַר (tsar, H6862) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
- Unsafe002003003022
- צֹר (tsôr, H6864) is a common noun meaning "flint" (a hard stone). The quotation "Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin" at Exodus 4:25 shows this sense, which does not independently attest the "Unsafe" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with צַר (tsar, H6862) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
- Enemies001001003002
- צֹר (tsôr, H6864) is a common noun meaning "flint" (a hard stone). The quotation "Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin" at Exodus 4:25 shows this sense, which does not independently attest the "Enemies" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with צַר (tsar, H6862) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
- Stone001002005016
- צֹר most often denotes flint or a sharp stone, as of the flint Zipporah uses to circumcise her son in Exodus 4:25, and the forehead the LORD makes harder than flint in Ezekiel 3:9.
- Tools001003001001017
- The word also denotes a flint used as a cutting implement, as of the flint knife Zipporah takes up to circumcise her son in Exodus 4:25.
- Names of Locations003001010
- צֹר (tsôr, H6864) denotes the hard stone "flint," as the quotation "Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin" at Exodus 4:25 shows, not a place name. The "Names of Locations" classification is bundle-shared with צֹר (Tsôr, H6865) (the place name "Tyre," which happens to share this lexeme's consonants) in the source data and reflects צֹר (Tsôr, H6865)'s own attested sense, not this common noun's.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6864. tsor II. צֹר noun [masculine] id.; — ׳צ used as knife Exo 4:25; in compare, מִצ…
II. צֹר noun [masculine] id.; — ׳צ used as knife Exo 4:25; in compare, מִצ חָזָק ׳כְּשָׁמִיר Eze 3:9; plural צֻרִים חַרְכוֺת Jos 5:2-3,knives of flint. — חַרְכּוֺ צזּר Psa 89:44 is dubious, ׳צ usually taken as = צֹר, and then either flint of his sword (i.e. sword sharp as flint, Bae), or edge (like flint) of his sword (most); We leaves untranslated; הַצֻּדִים חֶלְקַת 2Sa 2:16 see I. חֶלְקָה — Job 22:24 see I. צוּר below V. צור. I. צֹר.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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