זֵר
border
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
4 distinct verses where H2213 appears in the Absolute state, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 4 verses
- Exodus 30:3 זֵ֥ר n c ms You shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, the sides of it around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 37:2 זֵ֥ר n c ms He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it round about.
- Exodus 37:11 זֵ֥ר n c ms He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 37:26 זֵ֥ר n c ms He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
זר — transliterated zêr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “border.” Its uses cluster heavily in Exodus (100% of all occurrences). Spanning 10 verses in 1 book, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Exodus 25:11, it then recurs through the corpus. The King James Version usually renders it “crown,” while modern versions prefer “molding” (Berean Standard Bible) and “border of” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. See the sense tree, 10-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2213 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 10 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 10 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Crown 6×, Under the crown 2×
- American Standard Version†: Crown 3×, Thereto a crown 2×, Under the crown 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Molding 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Border of 8×, Border 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2213 across 10† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2213 across 10† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2213 across 10† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2213 across 10† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- border, moulding, circlet
Word origin
n.m. circlet, border (orig. that which presses, binds, cf. also Aramaic ܙܺܝܪܳܐ bracelet, זִירָא wreath, crown, NH זִיר id., זִירָה ring, wrestler’s ring; others from a √ זרר)—זֵר זָהָב Ex 25:11, 24, 25; 30:3; 37:2, 11, 12, 26; זֵרוֹ Ex 30:4; 37:27 (all P).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זרר (zârar) (H2237) — to sneeze.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
זֵר
- , v. זֵיר
זָר
- v. זוּר a.
- 1. stranger; (in Talm. mostly) non-priest, layman. Zeb. II, 1. Ib. 14ᵃ; Yoma 49ᵃ; a. fr.—Fem. זָרָה. Yeb. 85ᵇ ותהא ז׳ וכ׳ granted that she is not of a priestly family;—is not a lay-woman permitted &c.?
- 2. oppressor, enemy. Y. Ned. IX, beg. 41ᵇ (ref. to אל זר, Ps. LXXXI, 10) זר שבקרבך וכ׳ do not make the enemy within thyself thy king; Sabb. 105ᵇ איזהו אל זר וכ׳ which is the tyrannical power within thee?—Ex. R. s. 34 (play on זֵר a. זָר, v. זֵיר) if one is worthy נעשים לו זֵר ואם לאו זר they are to him a crown, if not—an enemy; Tanḥ. Vayakh. 8.—Fem. זָרָה. Yoma 72ᵇ נעשית לו ז׳ Ms. O. (Ms. M. נעשית ז׳ ממנו) the Law appears to him a tyrant (Ms. M. she becomes estranged from him, v. זוּר). e.g. Psalms 81:10
- 3. outcast; shunned, loathsome (v. זָרָא). Num. R. s. 7 (play on זָרָא, Num. XI, 20) והיאך נעשה ז׳ וכ׳ and how does he become an outcast? Leprosy overcomes him.—Pl. זָרִים. Ib. ז׳ מן הקהל excluded from the congregation.—Zeb. III, 1; a. fr. e.g. Numbers 11:20
זָר ²
- Targ. Ps. XLIV, 19, v. זְהַהּ.—Sabb. 82ᵇ, v. נְכַר.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H2213 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| זֵ֥ר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 30:3 | 6 |
| זֵר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 25:25 | 2 |
| לְ/זֵר֗/וֹ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 30:4 | 2 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
