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HebrewH6820Noun

צֹ֫עַר

tso.ar

9Occurrences
H6820Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Tsoar, a place East of the Jordan

from H6819 (צָעַר); little;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Zoar = "insignificance" 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

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

צֹ֫עַר appears 9 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
6
Deuteronomy
1
Isaiah
1
Jeremiah
1

Key Passages

Deuteronomy 34:3BSB

the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.

Genesis 13:10BSB

And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 14:2BSB

went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

Genesis 14:8BSB

Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and arrayed themselves for battle in the Valley of Siddim

Genesis 19:22BSB

Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.