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Strong's #6697: tsuwr (pronounced tsoor)

or tsur {tsoor}; from 6696; properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous):--edge, X (mighty) God (one), rock, X sharp, stone, X strength, X strong. See also 1049.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

/ ּ (Aramaic)

tsûr

1) rock, cliff (noun masculine)

1a) rocky wall, cliff

1b) rock (with flat surface)

1c) block of stone, boulder

1d) rock (specific)

1e) rock (of God)

1f) rock (of heathen gods)

1g) Rock (noun proper deity)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: from H6696



Usage:

This word is used 76 times:

Psalms 81:16: "them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied"
Psalms 89:26: "unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation."
Psalms 89:43: "Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle."
Psalms 92:15: "that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness"
Psalms 94:22: "is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge."
Psalms 95:1: "let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation."
Psalms 105:41: "He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river."
Psalms 114:8: "Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters."
Psalms 144:1: "A Psalm of David. Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers"
Proverbs 30:19: "the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea;"
Isaiah 2:10: "Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD,"
Isaiah 2:19: "And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear"
Isaiah 2:21: "To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear"
Isaiah 8:14: "for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel,"
Isaiah 10:26: "for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea,"
Isaiah 17:10: "of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant"
Isaiah 26:4: "for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:"
Isaiah 30:29: "to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel."
Isaiah 44:8: "Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not"
Isaiah 48:21: "them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he cleaved the rock also, and the waters"
Isaiah 48:21: "to flow out of the rock for them: he cleaved the rock also, and the waters gushed out."
Isaiah 51:1: "the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit"
Jeremiah 18:14: "Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing"
Jeremiah 21:13: "I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say,"
Nahum 1:6: "his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by"
Habakkuk 1:12: "die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction."









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