צוּר

1. a. rocky wall, cliff, 2 Mos 17,6 (twice in verse) (E), 5 Mos 8,15 (הַחַלָּמִישׁ ׳צ), Es 48,21 (twice in verse); Sl 78,15; Sl 78,20; Sl 105,41; Sl 114,8 (|| חַלָּמִישׁ); ׳בּוֺא בַצּ Es 2,10, בִּמְעָרוֺת צֻרִים vEs 2,19, ׳בְּנִקְרוֺת הַצּ vEs 2,21, compare 2 Mos 33,21; 2 Mos 33,22 (JE); yielding honey (from its clefts) Sl 81,17 (compare 5 Mos 32,13 Dy Perles^{Anal. 34} We read צוּף); as look-out 4 Mos 23,9 (JE), home of goats 1 Sam 24,3 (Gi v.1 Sam 24,2), snow-covered Jer 18,14 bearing (olives for) oil 5 Mos 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 Es 51,1 place of security 1 Kron 11,15, הַמִּישׁוֺר ׳צ Jer 21,13 (of city), figurative Sl 27,5; Sl 61,3 symbol of firmness Nah 1,6; Job 14,18; Job 18,4 enduring material Job 19,24.
\ \ b. rock with flat surface 2 Sam 21,10; Ord 30,19.
\ \ c. block of stone, boulder Dom 6,21; Dom 13,19 (as altar); compare צוּר מִכְשׁוֺל Es 8,14 (|| נֶגֶף אֶבֶן).
\ \ d. rock with specific name, עוֺרֵב ׳צ Dom 7,25; Es 10,26.

2. a. figurative of God (33 t.) as support and defence of his people (often || אֱלֹהִים, ׳י, etc.), מָעֻזֵּךְ ׳צ Es 17,10, מָעוֺז ׳צ Sl 31,3, עֻזִּי ׳צ Sl 62,8, מָעוֺן ׳צ, Sl 71,3, יְשֻׁעָתוֺ ׳צ 5 Mos 32,15 compare 2 Sam 22,47b (but strike out, see || Sl 18,47), Sl 89,27; Sl 95,1, וִישׁוּעָתִי ׳צ Sl 62,3; Sl 62,7, מַחְסִי ׳צ Sl 94,22 יִשְׂרָאֵל ׳צ Es 30,29; 2 Sam 23,3 (personified), צוּרִי Sl 18,3; Sl 18,47 = 2 Sam 22,3; 2 Sam 22,47a, >BIBLE:Psalm 19:15>; Sl 28,1; Sl 92,16; Sl 144,1, לְבָבִי ׳צ Sl 73,26, צוּרֵנוּ 5 Mos 32,31, צוּרָם v5 Mos 32,30; Sl 78,35 with בְּ essent. ׳בְּיָהּ י עוֺלָמִים ׳צ Es 26,4 (compare Sl 62,8 see ב I. 7 c); as proper name, of deity (the Rock 5 Mos 32,4; 5 Mos 32,18 (יְלָֽדְךָ ׳צ), v5 Mos 32,37; Hab 1,12, +(perhaps) Sl 75,6 (read בַּצּוּד, see צַוָּאר; see also פְּדָהצוּר).
\ \ b. of a heathen god 5 Mos 32,31, compare Es 44,3, מִי צוּר ׳מִבַּלְעֲדֵי א 2 Sam 22,32 || Sl 18,32, compare 1 Sam 2,2. — See also בֵּית צוּר and חֶלְקַת הַצֻּרִים. — Sl 89,44 see צֹד below III. צרר, Sl 49,15 see צוּרָה below III. צור. above