# צוּר (tsur)

Israeli respelling: tsur. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6697. 74 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)

King James renderings: edge, [idiom] (mighty) God (one), rock, [idiom] sharp, stone, [idiom] strength, [idiom] strong. See also H1049 (בֵּית צוּר).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tsur-h6697

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 17:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/17/6) — Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that th…
- [Exodus 33:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/33/21) — And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
- [Exodus 33:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/33/22) — And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I…
- [Numbers 23:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/23/9) — For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among…
- [Deuteronomy 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/15) — Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water;…
- [Deuteronomy 32:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/4) — He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- [Deuteronomy 32:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/13) — He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the ro…
- [Deuteronomy 32:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/15) — But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made…
- [Deuteronomy 32:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/18) — Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
- [Deuteronomy 32:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/30) — How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
- [Deuteronomy 32:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/31) — For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
- [Deuteronomy 32:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/37) — And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
- [Joshua 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/2) — At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
- [Joshua 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/3) — And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
- [Judges 6:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/21) — Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there r…
- [Judges 7:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/7/25) — And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Z…
- [Judges 13:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/13/19) — So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and his wife…
- [1 Samuel 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/2) — There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
- [1 Samuel 24:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/24/2) — Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
- [2 Samuel 21:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/10) — And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon…
- [2 Samuel 22:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/3) — The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou save…
- [2 Samuel 22:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/32) — For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
- [2 Samuel 22:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/47) — The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
- [2 Samuel 23:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/23/3) — The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
- [1 Chronicles 11:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/11/15) — Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the…
- [Job 14:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/14/18) — And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
- [Job 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/18/4) — He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
- [Job 19:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/24) — That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
- [Job 22:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/22/24) — Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
- [Job 24:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/8) — They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
- [Job 28:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/10) — He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
- [Job 29:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/6) — When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
- [Psalms 18:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/2) — The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation…
- [Psalms 18:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/31) — For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
- [Psalms 18:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/46) — The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
- [Psalms 19:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/19/14) — Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
- [Psalms 27:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/27/5) — For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a ro…
- [Psalms 28:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/28/1) — Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
- [Psalms 31:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/31/2) — Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
- [Psalms 49:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/49/14) — Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their be…
- [Psalms 61:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/61/2) — From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- [Psalms 62:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/62/2) — He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
- [Psalms 62:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/62/6) — He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
- [Psalms 62:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/62/7) — In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
- [Psalms 71:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/71/3) — Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortr…
- [Psalms 73:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/26) — My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
- [Psalms 78:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/15) — He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
- [Psalms 78:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/20) — Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his peo…
- [Psalms 78:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/35) — And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
- [Psalms 81:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/81/16) — He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
- [Psalms 89:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/26) — He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
- [Psalms 89:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/43) — Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
- [Psalms 92:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/92/15) — To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
- [Psalms 94:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/22) — But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
- [Psalms 95:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/95/1) — O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
- [Psalms 105:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/41) — He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
- [Psalms 114:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/114/8) — Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
- [Psalms 144:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/144/1) — Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
- [Proverbs 30:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/19) — The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a ma…
- [Isaiah 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/10) — Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
- [Isaiah 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/19) — And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, whe…
- [Isaiah 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/21) — To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he…
- [Isaiah 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/8/14) — And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a s…
- [Isaiah 10:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/26) — And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the…
- [Isaiah 17:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/17/10) — Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant ple…
- [Isaiah 26:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/4) — Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
- [Isaiah 30:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/29) — Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the…
- [Isaiah 44:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/8) — Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside…
- [Isaiah 48:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/21) — And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also,…
- [Isaiah 51:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/1) — Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit…
- [Jeremiah 18:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/14) — Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place…
- [Jeremiah 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/21/13) — Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or…
- [Nahum 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/1/6) — Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are…
- [Habakkuk 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/12) — Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty…