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Strong's H6697 צוּר (tsur)

Tsur means “edge” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6697
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 73
Books 15

Strong's H6697 Quick Answer

Strong's H6697 צּוּר צּוּר (tsuwr) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsuwr (tsoor) (or tsur {tsoor}) n-m. 1. (properly) a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed) 2. (generally) a rock or boulder It has 73 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include rock, rocks, sharp, and also. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
tsuwr (tsoor) (or tsur {tsoor}) n-m. 1. (properly) a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed) 2. (generally) a rock or boulder
Usage
73 linked usages
Books
15 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
rock, rocks, sharp, and also

Meaning and Definition

tsuwr (tsoor) (or tsur {tsoor}) n-m. 1. (properly) a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed) 2. (generally) a rock or boulder 3. (figuratively) a refuge 4. (also) an edge (as precipitous) [from H6696] KJV: edge, X (mighty) God (one), rock, X sharp, stone, X strength, X strong. See also H1049. Root(s): H6696 See also: H1049

Original Word
צּוּר צּוּר
Transliteration
tsuwr
Derivation
Root: צור First root strongs: 6696
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6697. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H6697 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tsuwr, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

rock Exodus 17:6 55× rocks Numbers 23:9 sharp Joshua 5:2 also Psalms 89:43

How Strong's H6697 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 73 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6697 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6697 in the Old Testament

73 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 17:6 KJV

Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Exodus 33:21 KJV

And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:

Exodus 33:22 KJV

And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:

Usage Excerpts

First 73 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6697.

Exodus 17:6 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Exodus 33:21 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
Exodus 33:22 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
Numbers 23:9 Old Testament, KJV
For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Deuteronomy 8:15 Old Testament, KJV
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
Deuteronomy 32:4 Old Testament, KJV
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Deuteronomy 32:13 Old Testament, KJV
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Deuteronomy 32:15 Old Testament, KJV
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 32:18 Old Testament, KJV
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Deuteronomy 32:30 Old Testament, KJV
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
Deuteronomy 32:31 Old Testament, KJV
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
Deuteronomy 32:37 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
Joshua 5:2 Old Testament, KJV
At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
Joshua 5:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
Judges 6:21 Old Testament, KJV
Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.
Judges 7:25 Old Testament, KJV
And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
Judges 13:19 Old Testament, KJV
So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
1 Samuel 2:2 Old Testament, KJV
There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
1 Samuel 24:2 Old Testament, KJV
Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
2 Samuel 21:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
2 Samuel 22:3 Old Testament, KJV
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
2 Samuel 22:32 Old Testament, KJV
For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
2 Samuel 22:47 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
2 Samuel 23:3 Old Testament, KJV
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
1 Chronicles 11:15 Old Testament, KJV
Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
Job 14:18 Old Testament, KJV
And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
Job 18:4 Old Testament, KJV
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Job 19:24 Old Testament, KJV
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Job 22:24 Old Testament, KJV
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Job 24:8 Old Testament, KJV
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Job 28:10 Old Testament, KJV
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
Job 29:6 Old Testament, KJV
When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
Psalms 18:2 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Psalms 18:31 Old Testament, KJV
For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
Psalms 18:46 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
Psalms 19:14 Old Testament, KJV
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Psalms 27:5 Old Testament, KJV
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
Psalms 28:1 Old Testament, KJV
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Psalms 31:2 Old Testament, KJV
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
Psalms 61:2 Old Testament, KJV
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Psalms 62:2 Old Testament, KJV
He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
Psalms 62:6 Old Testament, KJV
He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Psalms 62:7 Old Testament, KJV
In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
Psalms 71:3 Old Testament, KJV
Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
Psalms 73:26 Old Testament, KJV
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Psalms 78:15 Old Testament, KJV
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
Psalms 78:20 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
Psalms 78:35 Old Testament, KJV
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Psalms 81:16 Old Testament, KJV
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
Psalms 89:26 Old Testament, KJV
He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
Psalms 89:43 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
Psalms 92:15 Old Testament, KJV
To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Psalms 94:22 Old Testament, KJV
But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
Psalms 95:1 Old Testament, KJV
O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
Psalms 105:41 Old Testament, KJV
He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
Psalms 114:8 Old Testament, KJV
Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Psalms 144:1 Old Testament, KJV
Blessed be the LORD my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
Proverbs 30:19 Old Testament, KJV
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Isaiah 2:10 Old Testament, KJV
Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
Isaiah 2:19 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Isaiah 2:21 Old Testament, KJV
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Isaiah 8:14 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 10:26 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
Isaiah 17:10 Old Testament, KJV
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Isaiah 26:4 Old Testament, KJV
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
Isaiah 30:29 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
Isaiah 44:8 Old Testament, KJV
Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Isaiah 48:21 Old Testament, KJV
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
Isaiah 51:1 Old Testament, KJV
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Jeremiah 18:14 Old Testament, KJV
Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
Jeremiah 21:13 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
Nahum 1:6 Old Testament, KJV
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Habakkuk 1:12 Old Testament, KJV
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6697, grouped by book.

Exodus 3 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 8 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 5 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 7 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 25 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 11 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6697 FAQ

What does tsur (צוּר) mean?

Tsur (Strong's H6697) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "edge". tsuwr (tsoor) (or tsur {tsoor}) n-m. 1. (properly) a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed) 2. (generally) a rock or boulder

How many times is tsur (צוּר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 73 linked usages for Strong's H6697 across 15 books.

Where can I study tsur (צוּר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6697 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate tsur (צוּר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as rock, rocks, sharp, and also. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.