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Lexicon :: Strong's H6820 - ṣōʿar

Aa
צֹעַר
Transliteration
ṣōʿar
Pronunciation
tso'ar
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

צֹעַר Tsôʻar, tso'ar; from H6819; little; Tsoar, a place East of the Jordan:—Zoar.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's H6820 in the following manner: Zoar (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's H6820 in the following manner: Zoar (10x).

  1. Zoar = "insignificance"

    1. a city at the southeast end of the Dead Sea grouped with Sodom and Gomorrah as being one of the 5 cities slated for destruction by God; spared at Lot's plea as his place of refuge

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
צֹעַר Tsôʻar, tso'ar; from H6819; little; Tsoar, a place East of the Jordan:—Zoar.
STRONGS H6820: Abbreviations
† צֹ֫עַר, צ֫וֺעַר proper name, of a location Zoar (understood as insignficance, compare Genesis 19:20); — Σηλωρ, LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Σιλωρ, but Genesis 13:10; Jeremiah 48:34 Ζογορ(α); on Greek Version of the LXX compare further LagBN 54 f.: city at southeast end of Dead Sea, צֹעַר Genesis 13:10; Genesis 14:2, 8 (both = בֶּלַע) Deuteronomy 34:3; Isaiah 15:5; Jeremiah 48:34; צוֺעַר Genesis 19:22, 30 (twice in verse); with ה locative, צֹ֫עֲרָה Genesis 19:23 + Jeremiah 48:4 (for MT צעוריה), Greek Version of the LXX Ζαλορα, JDMich Ew Gf Gie and others — (compare BuhlGeogr. 271. 274 GASmGeogr.506 f. 678 (App.).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

13:10; 13:10; 14:2; 14:8; 19:20; 19:22; 19:23; 19:30

Deuteronomy

34:3

Isaiah

15:5

Jeremiah

48:4; 48:34; 48:34

H6820

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6820 matches the Hebrew צֹעַר (ṣōʿar),
which occurs 10 times in 9 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:2 - They made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:8 - And the king of Sodom with the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is Zoar), went out, and put their forces in position in the valley of Siddim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:23 - The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:30 - Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:3 - And the South, and the circle of the valley of Jericho, the town of palm-trees, as far as Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:5 - My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:34 - The cry of Heshbon comes even to Elealeh; to Jahaz their voice is sounding; from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim will become dry.
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