Zohar
צֹ֫חַרStrong’s H6714tsochar (tso-char)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsochar is the Hebrew word usually translated “zohar”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,”
Meaning
- A Judaite, son of Ashur by wife Helah
- Father of Ephron the Hittite
- One of the sons of Simeon; also 'Zerah'
How it's translated
- and zohar 3
- zohar 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Exodus 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 25:9And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
- Genesis 46:10And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
- Exodus 6:15And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
- 1 Chronicles 4:7And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
Hebrew dictionary
צֹ֫חַר tsochar · Zohar
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.23.8; father of: Ephron (H6085) § Zohar = "tawny" 1) a Judaite, son of Ashur by wife Helah 2) father of Ephron the Hittite 3) one of the sons of Simeon; also 'Zerah'
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.