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 Samuel 24:7 32t., צוֺר 1 Kings 5:15 8t. (Gi); — city of Hiram, friend of David and Solomon 2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:15; 1 Kings 9:11,12; 1 Chronicles 14:1; 2Chron 2:2; 2 Chronicles 2:10; of artif. Hiram 1 Kings 7:13; בַּתצֹֿר Psalm 45:13 of city personified (another view in Che); ׳צ also in name of Phoenician fotress, ׳מִבְצַרצֿ 2 Samuel 24:7, ׳צ ׳עִיר מ Joshua 19:29 (P); threatened by prophets Amos 1:9,10 and (with especially reference to commercial greatness) Isaiah 23:1 (מַשָׂא צֹר), Isaiah 23:5; Isaiah 23:8; Isaiah 23:15; Isaiah 23:15; Isaiah 23:17; Jeremiah 25:22 (מַלְכֵיצֹֿר), Jeremiah 27:3 (מֶלֶךְ צֹר), Jeremiah 47:4; Ezekiel 26:2,3,4,7,15; Ezekiel 27:2,3(twice in verse); Ezekiel 27:8,32; Ezekiel 28:2 (נְגִיד צֹר), Ezekiel 28:12 (מֶלֶךְ צוֺר); besieged by Nebuch. Ezekiel 29:18 (twice in verse); compare Zechariah 9:2,3; Joel 4:4; Psalm 83:8 (׳ישְׁבֵי צ); of Tyrians as proselytes Psalm 87:4 (predict.); — לְצוֺר Hosea 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}: —