Word Study · Strong's H6881 · Hebrew
צׇרְעָה
Tsorah
tsor-aw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Tsorʻâh
“Tsorah, a place in Palestine”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Tsorah, a place in Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Zareah, Zorah, Zoreah.
- 10occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 4 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 8inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 10 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 8
- צָרְעָ֖ה2
- צָרְעָה֙2
- וּבְצָרְעָ֖ה1
- וְצָרְעָ֖ה1
- מִצָּרְעָ֛ה1
- מִצָּרְעָ֣ה1
- מִצָּרְעָ֖ה1
- צָרְעָ֥ה1
How it is rendered · 4
- Zorah5
- from Zorah3
- and in Zorah1
- and Zorah1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- proper noun (a name)5
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpl · 5
- HR/Npl · 3
- HC/Npl · 1
- HC/R/Npl · 1
All 10, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Judges carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Joshua2 occurrences
Judges6 occurrences
- Judges 13:2מִצָּרְעָ֛הmitzareahpreposition + proper noun (a name)Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.here: from Zorah
- Judges 13:25צָרְעָ֖הtzareahproper noun (a name)And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.here: Zorah
- Judges 16:31צָרְעָה֙tzareahproper noun (a name)Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.here: Zorah
- Judges 18:2מִצָּרְעָ֣הmitzareahpreposition + proper noun (a name)So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.here: from Zorah
- Judges 18:8צָרְעָ֖הtzareahproper noun (a name)When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”here: Zorah
- Judges 18:11מִצָּרְעָ֖הmitzareahpreposition + proper noun (a name)So six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.here: from Zorah