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Lexicon :: Strong's H6697 - ṣûr

Aa
צוּר
Transliteration
ṣûr
Pronunciation
tsoor
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Part of Speech
masculine noun, proper noun with reference to deity
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1901a

Strong’s Definitions

צוּר tsûwr, tsoor; or צֻר tsur; from H6696; properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous):—edge, × (mighty) God (one), rock, × sharp, stone, × strength, × strong. See also H1049.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x

The KJV translates Strong's H6697 in the following manner: rock (64x), strength (5x), sharp (2x), God (2x), beauty (1x), edge (1x), stones (1x), mighty One (1x), strong (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 78x
The KJV translates Strong's H6697 in the following manner: rock (64x), strength (5x), sharp (2x), God (2x), beauty (1x), edge (1x), stones (1x), mighty One (1x), strong (1x).

  1. rock, cliff

    1. rocky wall, cliff

    2. rock (with flat surface)

    3. block of stone, boulder

    4. rock (specific)

    5. rock (of God)

    6. rock (of heathen gods)

      proper noun with reference to deity

    7. Rock

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צוּר tsûwr, tsoor; or צֻר tsur; from H6696; properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous):—edge, × (mighty) God (one), rock, × sharp, stone, × strength, × strong. See also H1049.
STRONGS H6697: Abbreviations
† I. צוּר noun masculineJob 29:6 rock, cliff; — צ׳ absolute Exodus 17:6 +, construct Deuteronomy 8:15 +; suffix צוּרִי 2 Samuel 22:3, etc.; plural צֻרִים Numbers 23:9 +, צוּרוֺת Job 28:10; construct צוּרֵי 1 Samuel 24:3 (Gi 1 Samuel 24:2); —
1.
a. rocky wall, cliff, Exodus 17:6 (twice in verse) (E), Deuteronomy 8:15 (הַחַלָּמִישׁ צ׳), Isaiah 48:21 (twice in verse); Psalm 78:15; Psalm 78:20; Psalm 105:41; Psalm 114:8; (|| חַלָּמִישׁ); בּוֺא בַצּ׳ Isaiah 2:10, בִּמְעָרוֺת צֻרִים Isaiah 2:19, בְּנִקְרוֺת הַצּ׳ Isaiah 2:21, compare Exodus 33:21, 22 (JE); yielding honey (from its clefts) Psalm 81:17 (compare Deuteronomy 32:13; Dy PerlesAnal. 34 We read צוּף); as look-out Numbers 23:9 (JE), home of goats 1 Samuel 24:3 (Gi 1 Samuel 24:2), snow-covered Jeremiah 18:14; bearing (olives for) oil Deuteronomy 32:13 (חַלְמִישׁ צ׳), Job 29:6; resort of homeless Job 24:8, pierced by miners Job 28:10, compare perhaps נְחָלִים שִׁית בְּצ׳ אוֺפִיר Job 22:24 deposit (thy) gold in the rock of the wadys (most below צֹר pebble); as quarry, figurative of Abraham as ancestor of Israel Isaiah 51:1; place of security 1 Chronicles 11:15, הַמִּישׁוֺר צ׳ Jeremiah 21:13 (of city), figurative Psalm 27:5; Psalm 61:3; symbol of firmness Nahum 1:6; Job 14:18; Job 18:4; enduring material Job 19:24.
b. rock with flat surface 2 Samuel 21:10; Proverbs 30:19.
c. block of stone, boulder Judges 6:21; Judges 13:19 (as altar); compare צוּר מִכְשׁוֺל Isaiah 8:14 (|| נֶגֶף אֶבֶן).
d. rock with specific name, עוֺרֵב צ׳ Judges 7:25; Isaiah 10:26.
2.
a. figurative of God (33 times) as support and defence of his people (often || אֱלֹהִים, י׳, etc.), מָעֻזֵּךְ צ׳ Isaiah 17:10, מָעוֺז צ׳ Psalm 31:3, עֻזִּי צ׳ Psalm 62:8, מָעוֺן צ׳, Psalm 71:3, יְשֻׁעָתוֺ צ׳ Deuteronomy 32:15 compare 2 Samuel 22:47b (but strike out, see || Psalm 18:47), Psalm 89:27; Psalm 95:1, וִישׁוּעָתִי צ׳ Psalm 62:3; Psalm 62:7, מַחְסִי צ׳ Psalm 94:22; יִשְׂרָאֵל צ׳ Isaiah 30:29; 2 Samuel 23:3 (personified), צוּרִי Psalm 18:3; Psalm 18:47 = 2 Samuel 22:3, 47a, Psalm 19:15; Psalm 28:1; Psalm 92:16; Psalm 144:1, לְבָבִי צ׳ Psalm 73:26, צוּרֵנוּ Deuteronomy 32:31, צוּרָם Deuteronomy 32:30; Psalm 78:35; with בְּ essent. בְּיָהּ י׳ עוֺלָמִים צ׳ Isaiah 26:4 (compare Psalm 62:8; see ב I. 7 c); as proper name, of deity (the Rock Deuteronomy 32:4, 18 (יְלָֽדְךָ צ׳), Deuteronomy 32:37; Habakkuk 1:12, +(perhaps) Psalm 75:6 (read בַּצּוּד, see צַוָּאר; see also מְּדָהצוּר).
b. of a heathen god Deuteronomy 32:31, compare Isaiah 44:3, מִי צוּר מִבַּלְעֲדֵי א׳ 2 Samuel 22:32 || Psalm 18:32, compare 1 Samuel 2:2. — See also בֵּית צוּר and חֶלְקַת הַצֻּרִים. — [Psalm 89:44 [Psalm 89:43] see H6697 צֹד , Psalm 49:15 [Psalm 49:14]] see H6699 צוּרָה.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

17:6; 17:6; 33:21; 33:22

Numbers

23:9; 23:9

Deuteronomy

8:15; 8:15; 32:4; 32:13; 32:13; 32:15; 32:18; 32:30; 32:31; 32:31; 32:37

Judges

6:21; 7:25; 13:19

1 Samuel

2:2; 24:2; 24:2; 24:3; 24:3

2 Samuel

21:10; 22:3; 22:3; 22:32; 22:47; 22:47; 23:3

1 Chronicles

11:15

Job

14:18; 18:4; 19:24; 22:24; 24:8; 28:10; 28:10; 29:6; 29:6

Psalms

18:3; 18:32; 18:47; 18:47; 27:5; 28:1; 31:3; 49:14; 61:3; 62:3; 62:7; 62:8; 62:8; 71:3; 73:26; 75:6; 78:15; 78:20; 78:35; 89:27; 89:43; 94:22; 95:1; 105:41; 114:8; 144:1

Proverbs

30:19

Isaiah

2:10; 2:19; 2:21; 8:14; 10:26; 17:10; 26:4; 30:29; 44:3; 48:21; 51:1

Jeremiah

18:14; 21:13

Nahum

1:6

Habakkuk

1:12

H6697

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Strong's Number H6697 matches the Hebrew צוּר (ṣûr),
which occurs 78 times in 74 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 17:6–Psa 81:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:6 - See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:21 - And the Lord said, See, there is a place near me, and you may take your place on the rock:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:22 - And when my glory goes by, I will put you in a hole in the rock, covering you with my hand till I have gone past:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 - From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:4 - He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:15 - But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:18 - You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:31 - For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:37 - And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3 - So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:21 - Then the angel of the Lord put out the stick which was in his hand, touching the meat and the cakes with the end of it; and a flame came up out of the rock, burning up the meat and the cakes: and the angel of the Lord was seen no longer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - And they took the two chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they put Oreb to death at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they put to death at the place of the grape-crushing in Zeeb, and they went after Midian; but the heads of Oreb and Zeeb they took across Jordan to Gideon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:19 - So Manoah took the young goat with its meal offering, offering it on the rock to the Lord, who did strange things.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2 - No other is holy as the Lord, for there is no other God but you: there is no Rock like our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - Then Saul took three thousand of the best men out of all Israel, and went in search of David and his men on the rocks of the mountain goats.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:10 - And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took haircloth, placing it on the rock as a bed for herself, from the start of the grain-cutting till rain came down on them from heaven; and she did not let the birds of the air come near them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:3 - My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:32 - For who is God but the Lord? and who is a Rock but our God?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:47

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:47 - The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:3 - The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:15 - And three of the thirty went down to David, to the rock, into the strong place of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:18 - But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4 - But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:24 - And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:24 - And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:8 - They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:10 - He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:6 - When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2 - The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:31 - For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:46

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:46 - The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:14 - Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:5 - For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:1 - <Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:2 - Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 - Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:2 - From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:2 - He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:6 - He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7 - In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3 - Be my strong Rock, the strong place of my salvation; for you are my Rock, and my safe place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:26 - My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15 - The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:20 - See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:35 - In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:16 - I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.

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