צֹר

I. צֹר, צוֺר proper name, of a location Τυρος: Tyre, famous Phoenician city (Phoenician צר; Assyrian ‚urru, so Tel Amarna; Egyptian Da-(ï)ra, Da-ru WMM^As.u.Eur.185); — צֹר 2 Sam 24,7 + 32 t., צוֺר 1 Kong 5,15 + 8 t. (Gi); — city of Hiram, friend of David and Solomon 2 Sam 5,11; 1 Kong 5,15; 1 Kong 9,11; 1 Kong 9,12; 1 Kong 1,1; 2 Kron 2,2; 2 Kron 2,10 of artif. Hiram 1 Kong 7,13 בַּתצֹֿר Sl 45,13 of city personified (another view in Che); ׳צ also in name of Phoenician fotress, ׳מִבְצַרצֿ 2 Sam 24,7, ׳צ ׳עִיר מ Jos 19,29 (P); threatened by prophets Amos 1,9; Amos 1,10 and (with especially reference to commercial greatness) Es 23,1 (מַשָׂא צֹר), vEs 23,5 vEs 23,8 vEs 23,15 vEs 23,15 vEs 23,17; Jer 25,22 (מַלְכֵיצֹֿר), Jer 27,3 (מֶלֶךְ צֹר), Jer 47,4; Ezk 26,2; Ezk 26,3; Ezk 26,4; Ezk 26,7; Ezk 26,15; Ezk 27,2; Ezk 27,3 (twice in verse); Ezk 27,8; Ezk 27,32; Ezk 28,2 (נְגִיד צֹר), vEzk 28,12 (מֶלֶךְ צוֺר); besieged by Nebuch. Ezk 29,18 (twice in verse); compare Zak 9,2; Zak 9,3; Joel 4,4; Sl 83,8 (׳ישְׁבֵי צ); of Tyrians as proselytes Sl 87,4 (predict.); — לְצוֺר Hos 9,13 is probably corrupt, read לָצוֺד or לָצַיִד ᵐ5 We GASm, compare Now. — ׳צ often + צִידוֺן q. v.; — see, on Tyre, Pietschm^{Phön. 60 ff.} Rob^{BR ii. 461 ff.} de Luynes^{Voyage à la Mer Morte (1874) i. 28 ff.}, and Pl xiii-xviii Bd^{Pal. 3 (1898), 307 ff}: —