Flint
צֹרStrong’s H6864tsor
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsor is the Hebrew word usually translated “flint” and “more than flint”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.”
Meaning
- Flint, hard pebbleused as a knife
How it's translated
- a flint 1
- more than flint 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
צֹר tsor · flint
1) flint, hard pebble 1a) used as a knife
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flint” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLINT, noun
- In natural history, a sub-species of quartz, of a yellowish or bluish gray, or grayish black color.
- A piece of the above described stone used in firearms to strike fire.
- Any thing proverbially hard; as a heart of flint
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.