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# צֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6864

**knives of flint** — used 3 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

knives of flint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6864/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צֹר²: id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6864/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] id.;—צ׳ used as knife Ex 4:25; in comp., כְּשָׁמִיר חָזָק מִצּ׳ Ez 3:9; pl. חַרְבוֹת צֻרִים Jos 5:2, 3 knives of flint.—צוּר חַרְבּוֹ ψ 89:44 is dub., צ׳ usually taken as = צֹר, and then either flint of his sword (i.e. sword sharp as flint, Bae), or edge (like flint) of his sword (most); We leaves untransl. 2 S 2:16 חֶלְקַת הַצֻּרִים v. i. חֶלְקָה.—Jb 22:24 v. i. צוּר sub V. צור. i. צֹר v. p. 862.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (31 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (27 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a flint (1); than flint (1); the flint (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 89:44](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.44/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.44/#tree)

אַף־תָּ֭שִׁיב צ֣וּר חַרְבּ֑וֹ וְלֹ֥א הֲ֝קֵימֹת֗וֹ בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* also you.turn.back the.flint his.sword his and not you have.raised.him.up in (the) battle

*JPS 1917:* Yea, Thou turnest back the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

[Ezekiel 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.3.9/#tree)

כְּשָׁמִ֛יר חָזָ֥ק מִצֹּ֖ר נָתַ֣תִּי מִצְחֶ֑ךָ לֹֽא־תִירָ֤א אוֹתָם֙ וְלֹא־תֵחַ֣ת מִפְּנֵיהֶ֔ם כִּ֛י בֵּֽית־מְרִ֖י הֵֽמָּה׃פ

*Word for word:* like diamond hard more than.flint I.make forehead your not you.must.fear them and not you.must.be.dismayed from faces their (dm) \[are\].a.house of.rebellion they

*JPS 1917:* As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6864.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6864/): 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).