Envoy
צִירStrong’s H6735tsir
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsir is the Hebrew word usually translated “pangs”, “envoy” and “pangs her”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.”
Meaning
- Envoy, messenger
- Pivot of door, hinge
- Pang, distress
How it's translated
- pangs 2
- and an envoy 2
- pangs her 1
- and an envoy of 1
- an envoy 1
- hinge its 1
- envoys 1
- like pangs of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Proverbs 3
- 1 Samuel 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Daniel 1
- Obadiah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 4:19And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
- Proverbs 13:17A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
- Proverbs 25:13As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
- Proverbs 26:14As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
- Isaiah 13:8And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
- Isaiah 18:2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Hebrew dictionary
צִיר tsir · envoy
envoy, messenger
צִיר tsir · hinge
pivot of door, hinge
צִיר tsir · pang
pang, distress
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “envoy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EN'VOY, noun
[Latin via; Eng. way, contracted from viag, vag, or wag.]
- A person deputed by a prince or government, to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign prince or government.
- A common messenger. [Not in use.]
- Formerly, a postscript sent with compositions, to enforce them.
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.