Lexical Summary Tyros: Tyre, a city of Phoenicia Original Word: ΤύροςTransliteration: Tyros Phonetic Spelling: (too'-ros) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: Tyre, a city of Phoenicia Meaning: Tyre -- a city of Phoenicia Strong's Concordance Tyre. Of Hebrew origin (Tsor): Tyrus (i.e. Tsor), a place in Palestine -- Tyre. see HEBREW Tsor Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5184: ΤύροςΤύρος, Τύρου, ἡ (Hebrew צור or צֹר; from Aramaic טוּר, a rock), Tyre, a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean, very ancient, large, splendid, flourishing in commerce, and powerful by land and sea. In the time of Christ and the apostles it was subject to the Romans, but continued to possess considerable wealth and prosperity down to |
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