Beth-zur
בֵּית־צוּרStrong’s H1049bet tsur
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bet tsur is the Hebrew word usually translated “beth” and “zur”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,”
Meaning
- § Beth-zur = "house of the rock"
How it's translated
- beth 4
- zur 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Nehemiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 2:45And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Bethzur.
- 2 Chronicles 11:7And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
- Nehemiah 3:16After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
Hebrew dictionary
בֵּית־צוּר bet tsur · Beth-zur
§ Beth-zur = "house of the rock" a place in Judah
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “be” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BE, verb intransitive
substantive, participle present tense being; participle passive been.[The sense is to stand, remain or be fixed; hence to continue. This verb is defective, and its defects are supplied by verbs from other roots, as, is, was, were, which have no radical connection with be The case is the same with the substantive verb in most languages.]
- To be fixed; to exist; to have a real state or existence, for a longer or shorter time.“Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus” Philippians 2:5
- To be made to be; to become.
- To remain.
- To be present in a place.
All definitions
- To have a particular manner of being or happening; as, how is this affair? how was it? what were the circumstances?
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.