STRONGS NUMBER H6865

H6865. Tsor

I. צוֺר צֹר,‎ proper name, of a location Τυρος: Tyre, famous Phoenician city (Phoenician צר‎; Assyrian ‚urru, so Tel Amarna; Egyptian Da-(ï)ra, Da-ru WMM^As.u.Eur.185); — צֹר‎ 2 Samuel 24:7 32t., צוֺר‎ 1 Kings 5:15 8t. (Gi); — city of Hiram, friend of David and Solomon 2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:15; 9:11-12, 1 Chronicles 14:1; 2 Chronicles 2:2; 2:10; of artif. Hiram 1 Kings 7:13; בַּתצֹֿר‎ Psalm 45:13 of city personified (another view in Che); ׳צ‎ also in name of Phoenician fotress, ׳מִבְצַרצֿ‎ 2 Samuel 24:7, מ ׳עִיר ׳צ‎ Joshua 19:29 (P); threatened by prophets Amos 1:9-10, and (with especially reference to commercial greatness) Isaiah 23:1 (צֹר מַשָׂא‎), 23:5; 23:8; 23:15; 23:15; 23:17; Jeremiah 25:22 (מַלְכֵיצֹֿר‎), 27:3 (צֹר מֶלֶךְ‎), 47:4; Ezekiel 26:2-3, 4, 7, 15; 27:2-3,(twice in verse); 27:8, 32; 28:2 (צֹר נְגִיד‎), 28:12 (צוֺר מֶלֶךְ‎); besieged by Nebuch. 29:18 (twice in verse); compare Zechariah 9:2-3, Joel 4:4; Psalm 83:8 (צ ׳ישְׁבֵי‎); of Tyrians as proselytes 87:4 (predict.); — לְצוֺר‎ Hosea 9:13 is probably corrupt, read לָצוֺד‎ or ᵐ5 לָצַיִד‎ We GASm, compare Now. — ׳צ‎ often + צִידוֺן‎ q. v.; — see, on Tyre, Pietschm^{Phön. 60 ff.} Rob^{BR ii. 461 ff.} de Luynes^{Voyage à la Mer Morte (1874) i. 28 ff.}, and Pl xiii-xviii Bd^{Pal. 3 (1898), 307 ff}: —