צְרוֹר
bundle
also: parcel, pouch, bag fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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.
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
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.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 4 times (40%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 4 times (40%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (10%)
- Noun, Proper 1 time (10%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6872 appears — 9 distinct verses across 8 books. 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.
Genesis 1 verse
1 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 9:1 צְר֧וֹר n Proper Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.
- 1 Samuel 25:29 בִּ/צְר֣וֹר prep + n c ms cs Though men be risen up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.
2 Samuel 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Proverbs 1 verse
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Amos 1 verse
Haggai 1 verse
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.
צרור — transliterated tsᵉrôwr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “bundle.” Debuting at Genesis 42:35, it then recurs through the corpus. With 9 verses in 8 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. BDB distinguishes 2 senses; alongside “bundle” it spans “parcel”, “pouch”, and “bag”. Sharing its root, it stands alongside צרר, צר and צר. See the sense tree, 9-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6872 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 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 9 occurrences in the concordance →
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 9 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 56%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 33%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 11%
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†: Bundle 3×, Bag 2×
- American Standard Version†: Bag 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Bag 3×, Pebble 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Bag 2×, Bundle of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6872 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 H6872 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 H6872 across 10† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6872 across 11† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
צרור I pebble
צרור II m. grandfather of Ḳish 1 S 9
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. n.m. Hg 1:6 bundle, parcel, pouch, bag (proposes a binding, i.e. sthg. bound up);—צ׳ abs. Am 9:9 +, cstr. Gn 42:35 +; pl. cstr. צְרֹרוֹת v 35;—bundle or pouch (purse) of money 42:35(×2) (E), Pr 7:20; צ׳ הַמֹּר Ct 1:13 (fig. of lover); צְרוּרָה בִּצ׳ הַחַיִּים 1 S 25:29 (fig.; v. I. צרר); חָתֻם בִּצ׳ פִּשְׁעִי Jb 14:17 (i.e. hidden, forgotten Hi Bu al.; > al. treasured up), צ׳ נָקוּב Hg 1:6 (v. I. נקב).
II. n.m. pebble;—צ׳ 2 S 17:13; also Am 9:9 (where perhaps fig. for grain of wheat, in metaph. of winnowed Isr., cf. Dr Now al.; > pebble retained in sieve PreuschenZAW xv (1895), 24, cf. on custom WetzstZPV xiv (1891), 2 f.).
III. n.pr.m. grandfather of Ḳish 1 S 9:1, Αρεδ, 𝔊L Σαρα.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צרר (tsârar) (H6887) — to bind.
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.
*צֵרוּר
- (צָרַר I) enmity. Num. R. s. 21 בזיון ומלחמות וצ׳ disgrace, wars and enmity (Tanḥ. Pinḥ. 3 צרות).
צְרוֹר I
- 1. knot. Kel. XXVI, 4 (צְרוּרוֹת) צ׳ שעה if they are tied up with a temporary knot; צ׳ עילם with a permanent knot; Y. Kil. VI, 30ᶜ. Ib. צ׳ עולם צריך חיתיך צ׳ וכ׳ a permanent knot requires cutting through (to be opened); a temporary knot does not &c.
- 2. bundle, bag. Kel. l. c. 2 צ׳ המרגלית a piece of leather in which jewels are bound up; צ׳ המעות in which money is bound up; Tosef. Kel. B. Bath. IV, 3. Snh. 68ᵃ. Ex. R. s. 20; a. fr.
צְרוֹר II
- , v. צָרַד) pebble, stone. Sabb. VIII, 6 (81ᵃ) צ׳ או אבן, read as in Y. ed. צ׳ אבן a pebble; Tosef. ib. VIII (IX), 22; Y. ib. VIII, 11ᶜ top (v. Rabb. D. S. to Sabb. l. c. note 3). Gitt. 64ᵇ, a. e. צ׳ וזורקו אגוז וכ׳ a child that is given a pebble and throws it away, a nut and takes it. Men. I, 2 קמץ ועלה בידו צ׳ if the priest took a handful (of the meal offering), and a pebble was in it. T’bul Yom I, 4 הצ׳ שבככר a pebble (or a piece of earthen ware) put as a mark on a loaf; a. fr.—Pl. צְרוֹרוֹת. Y. Erub. V, 22ᶜ top. Y. Yoma IV, beg. 41ᵇ ויביא שני צ׳ וכ׳ (not צרורת) let him take two pebbles, one black &c.; a. fr.—[Yalk. Lev. 587 נפלו ממנו צ׳, read: נִיצוֹצוֹת.]
צְרוֹר
- Y. Snh. VII, end, 25ᵈ. Ib. צריר (corr. acc.).
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 9 distinct written forms H6872 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בִּ/צְר֣וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 14:17 | 2 |
| צְֽרוֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Proverbs 7:20 | 1 |
| צְר֖וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Amos 9:9 | 1 |
| צְר֥וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Haggai 1:6 | 1 |
| צְר֧וֹר | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 9:1 | 1 |
| צְר֨וֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Song of Solomon 1:13 | 1 |
| צְרֹר֧וֹת | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 42:35 | 1 |
| צְרֽוֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 17:13 | 1 |
| צְרוֹר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 42:35 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6872, 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 → 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 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 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
- Genesis 42:35
- 1 Samuel 9:1
- 2 Samuel 17:13
- Job 14:17
- Proverbs 7:20
- Song of Solomon 1:13
- Amos 9:9
- Haggai 1:6
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.
