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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 - I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:21 - Then the LORD said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:22 - When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 - From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:4 - He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:15 - Jeshurun[fn] grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:18 - You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How could one man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had 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, as even our enemies concede.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:37

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:37 - He will say: “Now where are their gods, the rock they took refuge in,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3 - So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath Haaraloth.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:21 - Then the angel of the LORD touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the LORD disappeared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:19 - Then Manoah took a young goat, together with the grain offering, and sacrificed it on a rock to the LORD. And the LORD did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife watched:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2 - “There is no one holy like the LORD; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - So Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:10 - Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest till the rain poured down from the heavens on the bodies, she did not let the birds touch them by day or the wild animals by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:3 - my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield[fn] and the horn[fn] of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior— from violent people you save me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:32 - For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:47

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:47 - “The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Savior!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:3 - The God of Israel spoke, the Rock of Israel said to me: ‘When one rules over people in righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:15 - Three of the thirty chiefs came down to David to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:18 - “But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:4 - You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:24 - that they were inscribed with an iron tool on[fn] lead, or engraved in rock forever!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:24 - and assign your nuggets to the dust, your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:8 - They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:10 - They tunnel through the rock; their eyes see all its treasures.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:6 - when my path was drenched with cream and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2 - The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield[fn] and the horn[fn] of my salvation, my stronghold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:31 - For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:46

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:46 - The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God my Savior!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:14 - May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:5 - For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:1 - Of David. To you, LORD, I call; you are my Rock, do not turn a deaf ear to me. For if you remain silent, I will be like those who go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:2 - Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 - They are like sheep and are destined to die; death will be their shepherd (but the upright will prevail over them in the morning). Their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:2 - From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:2 - Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:6 - Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:7 - My salvation and my honor depend on God[fn]; he is my mighty rock, my refuge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3 - Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go; give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:26 - My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15 - He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the seas;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:20 - True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, streams flowed abundantly, but can he also give us bread? Can he supply meat for his people?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:35 - They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:16 - But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

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