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# צֹעַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6820

**Zoar** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Zoar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6820/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צֹ֫עַר: n.pr.loc. Zoar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6820/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Zoar (understood as insignificance, cf. Gn 19:20);—Σηγωρ, 𝔊L Σιγωρ, but Gn 13:10 Je 48:34 Ζογορ(α); on 𝔊 cf. furhter LagBN 54 f.: city at SE. end of Dead Sea, צֹעַר Gn 13:10; 14:2, 8 (both = בֶּלַע), Dt 34:3; Is 15:5; Je 48:34; צוֹעַר Gn 19:22, 30(×2); c. ה loc., צֹ֫עֲרָה v 23 + Je 48:4 (for MT צעוריה), 𝔊 Ζογορα, JDMich Ew Gf Gie al.—cf. BuhlGeogr. 271. 274 GASmGeogr. 506 f. 678 (App.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Zoar (7); \[is\] Zoar (2); to (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 19:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.19.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.19.23/#tree)

הַשֶּׁ֖מֶשׁ יָצָ֣א עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְל֖וֹט בָּ֥א צֹֽעֲרָה׃

*Word for word:* the sun it.came.out over the earth and Lot he.went to Zoar

*JPS 1917:* The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar.

[Deuteronomy 34:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.34.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.34.3/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַנֶּ֗גֶב וְֽאֶת־הַכִּכָּ֞ר בִּקְעַ֧ת יְרֵח֛וֹ עִ֥יר הַתְּמָרִ֖ים עַד־צֹֽעַר׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the Negev and (et) the district in.the.valley of.Jericho the.city of the.palm.trees to Zoar

*JPS 1917:* and the South, and the Plain, even the valley of Jericho the city of palm-trees, as far as Zoar.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6820.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6820/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).