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HebrewH6698Proper Noun (Masculine)

צוּר

tsur

5Occurrences
H6698Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Tsur, the name of a Midianite and of an Israelite

the same as H6697 (צוּר); rock;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at ; father of: Cozbi (H3579) § Zur = "rock" 1) father of Cozbi and one of the 5 Midianite princes who were slain when Balaam fell 2) son of Jehiel, the father or leader of Gibeon

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

צוּר appears 5 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
2
Numbers
2
Joshua
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 8:30BSB

and Abdon was his firstborn son, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,

1 Chronicles 9:36BSB

Abdon was his firstborn son, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,

Joshua 13:21BSB

all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.

Numbers 25:15BSB

And the name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.

Numbers 31:8BSB

Among the slain were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.

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