צְרִי
Zeri
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Zeri’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6874 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
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At its core, צרי (Tsᵉrîy) means “Zeri.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in 1 Chronicles (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at 1 Chronicles 25:3. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6874 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Zeri 1×
- American Standard Version: Zeri 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zeri 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Zeri 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6874 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6874 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6874 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6874 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- Zeri = "built"
- son of Jeduthun and a musician in the court of David
Word origin
n.pr.m. a musician, 1 Ch 25:3 (Σ)ουρ(ε)ι, = יִצְרִי (q.v.) v 11 (Ιεσδρει, 𝔊L Ασειρηλα).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צרי (tsᵉrîy) (H6875) — balm.
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.
צְרֵי I
- to split, tear. Targ. II Esth. IV, 1.—Ab. Zar. 30ᵃ חזייה … דצָרֵי ואתי (Ar. צָארֵי) saw a serpent split (cross the water, cmp. צלח) and come on.—[Men. 37ᵇ דצרייה, v. צוּר II ch.].
- to burst. Ab. Zar. l. c. bot. דמְצָרֵי זיקי, v. טִילָא II.
- to be split, burst. Ib. 65ᵇ דלא נִצְטְרוּ זיקי that the wine bags should not burst. Sabb. 154ᵇ מִיצְטָרוּ זיקי the bags may burst. Yeb. 17ᵃ בנתא … אִיצְטָרוּיֵי אִיצְטָרֵי the (Canaanite) girls of that generation had their wombs cut.—[Targ. Prov. XVIII, 1; XX, 3, v. צְדֵי I.]
צְרֵי II
- v. צְרַח
צֳרִי
- preced. art.) [that which runs through cracks,] resin, balsam (v. Gen. R. s. 91, quot. s. v. בַּלְסָם).—Ker. 6ᵃ, a. fr. הצ׳ an ingredient of frankincense. Sabb. 25ᵇ; Tosef. ib. II, 3 אין מדליקין בצ׳ you must not feed the Sabbath lamp with balsam; Y. ib. II, 4ᵈ אין מדליקין צוֹרִי.
צָרֵי
- , Sabb. 90ᵇ; Ab. Zar. 75ᵃ bot. Ar., v. צוּר III h. a. ch.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6874, 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
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.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Zeri). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(built), one of the sons of Jeduthun in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 25:3) (B.C. 1043.)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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