צֹר
flint
‘flint’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6864 appears in the Book of Ezekiel — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Ezekiel
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.
צר (tsôr) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “flint.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Exodus, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. It first appears in Exodus 4:25. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6864 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
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 3 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†: Sharp stone 1×, Than flint 1×
- American Standard Version†: Flint 1×, Than flint 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Flint knife 1×, Than flint 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Flint 1×, Than flint 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6864 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6864 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6864 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6864 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 0 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
צר I ii. צֹר v. I, II, III. צרר.
צר II loc. Τυρος
צר III [m.] id.
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. ii. צֹר v. I, II, III. צרר.
I. n.pr.loc. Τυρος: Tyre, famous Phoenician city (Ph. צר; Assyrian Ṣurru, so TelAm; Egyptian Ḏa-(ï̥)rạ, Ḏa-ru̥ WMMAs. u. Eur. 185);—צֹר 2 S 24:7 + 32 times, צוֹר 1 K 5:15 + 8 times (Gi);—city of Hiram, friend of David and Sol. 2 S 5:11; 1 K 5:15; 9:11, 12; 1 Ch 14:1; 2 Ch 2:2, 10; of artif. Hiram 1 K 7:13; בַּת־צֹר ψ 45:13 of city personif. (another view in Che); צ׳ also in name of Ph. fortress, מִבְצַר־צ׳ 2 S 24:7, עִיר מ׳ צ׳ Jos 19:29 (P); threatened by proph. Am 1:9, 10 and (with especially ref. to commercial greatness) Is 23:1 (מַשָּׂא צֹר), v 5, 8, 15(×2), 17 Je 25:22 (מַלְכֵי־צֹר), 27:3 (מֶלֶךְ צֹר), 47:4 Ez 26:2, 3, 4, 7, 15; 27:2, 3(×2), 8, 32; 28:2 (נְגִיד צֹר), v 12 (מֶלֶךְ צוֹר); besieged by Nebuch. 29:18, 18; cf. Zc 9:2, 3; Jo 4:4 ψ 83:8 (ישְׁבֵי צ׳); of Tyrians as proselytes ψ 87:4 (predict.);—לְצוֹר Ho 9:13 is prob. corrupt, read לָצוּד or לָצַיִד 𝔊 We GASm, cf. Now.—צ׳ often + צִידוֹן q.v.;—see, on Tyre, PietschmPhön. 60 ff. RobBR ii. 461 ff. de LuynesVoyage à la Mer Morte (1874) i. 28 ff., and Pl. xiii–xviii BdPal. 3 (1898), 307 ff.—ii. צֹר (flint, knife) v. III. צרר.
II. n.[m.] id.;—צ׳ used as knife Ex 4:25; in comp., כְּשָׁמִיר חָזָק מִצּ׳ Ez 3:9; pl. חַרְבוֹת צֻרִים Jos 5:2, 3 knives of flint.—צוּר חַרְבּוֹ ψ 89:44 is dub., 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 untransl. 2 S 2:16 חֶלְקַת הַצֻּרִים v. i. חֶלְקָה.—Jb 22:24 v. i. צוּר sub V. צור. i. צֹר v. p. 862.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צור (tsûwr) (H6696) — to besiege.
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.
צֹר
- , v. צוֹר
צַר I
- to be narrow, v. צָרַר.
צַר II
- preced.)
- 1. (adj.) narrow. Par. XII, 2 צלוחית שפיה צר a flask with a narrow neck; a. e.—צַר עַיִן, pl. צָרֵי עין narrow-minded, selfish, envious. Y. Taan. III, 66ᵈ (ref. to Job XXXVI, 19) אם סדרתה תפלה לא יהו לך צ׳ ע׳ מלמעלה if thou orderest thy prayer well, thou shalt have no envious adversaries in heaven above; a. e.; v. עַיִן.—Fem. צָרָה. Esth. R. to I, 5, a. e., v. עַיִן; a. fr.—Pl. צָרוֹת. Y. Sot. IX, 24ᵃ bot. רחבות מלמעלן וצ׳ וכ׳ wide above, and narrow below; a. fr. e.g. Job 36:19
- 2. anguish, trouble. Erub. 65ᵃ בַּצַּר אל יורה, v. יָרָה.
- 3. oppressor, adversary. Gen. R. s. 61, end, v. צוֹר.—[Yalk. Gen. 62 שונא וצר, v. עָר.]—Pl. צָרִים. Ex. R. s. 21 (ref. to Job l. c.) ערוך שועך … צ׳ מלמעלן order thy prayer before thy Maker, that thou have no adversaries (accusers) in heaven above; Snh. 44ᵇ כל המאמץ … אין לו צ׳ וכ׳ he who strengthens himself (makes a strong effort) for prayer, has no adversaries &c. Ib. ואל יהיו צ׳ וכ׳ and that he may have no adversaries &c. Ex. R. s. 27 צָרֵיהֶם של ישראל Israel’s allied adversaries; a. fr.
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 2 distinct written forms H6864 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִ/צֹּ֖ר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 3:9 | 1 |
| צֹ֗ר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 4:25 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6864, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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